Review: Richard Greenberg’s, “Three Days of Rain.” Seattle Public Theatre at the Bathhouse.
Posted in Architecture, Theatre on February 11th, 2008 by Eric FranklinI’m not the most well-versed theatre-goer you’ve ever met. I don’t know the major playwrights or the “can’t miss” plays that come through town. What I do know, however, is that “Three Days of Rain” (playing through February 24th) is an exquisitely written piece by Richard Greenberg and that the production is ably directed and deftly acted by the small cast.
The opening act of the play occurs in an unoccupied Manhattan loft, the long-abandoned apartment of a recently deceased architect. His two children and step-child have reunited after significant time apart to hear the reading of his will, converging on the town from various points domestic and international. They bring their vastly different psychoses and desire to reconnect to a quick simmer as memories are dredged and old wounds reopened.
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