Dante's Inferno

I wasn't sure exactly that I wanted to see "Dante's Inferno" staged in the Hot Shop of the Museum of Glass.

As it turns out, I'm glad I saw it. Tim Linnemann made a particularly striking Virgil, but he wasn't burdened with the narration that Lisa Confehr had as Dante. I liked Dashel Milligan's Ugolino and Minos a lot too. Minos in particular had a range of movement that instantly brought life to the story.

Rosemary's review was pretty accurate to the performance, although the headline is a little more sour than the production deserves ("Heat can't illuminate 'Inferno' ").

Although she does write, "The penultimate scene, where a damned soul is entombed in a glass vessel created before your eyes, is astonishing." Perhaps you would be like me and expect a person to get entombed in a glass vessel after reading that sentence. In which case you would get to that scene and wait for the tiny glass bowl to get big enough that Susan Graf would fit inside it. Alas, Rosemary meant the damned soul literally, not a full person. Ah, well.

Still a cool piece, though. I'm happy I saw it, and I'm happy a major organization like the Museum of Glass can sponsor something like this. Young cast, cool idea, and thoughtful. Good for them!