Steven Berkoff goes all, “Old Testament on our ass” with his contemporary reworking of Adam and Eve, David and Goliath, Samson and Delilah and Moses and Pharaoh. Using the Bible, as social commentary is nothing new, priests try and do it every Sunday but to paraphrase Frank Carson, “It’s the way he tells ‘em.”

A single tortured branch extends over the stark white set like the wizened hand of god. This is the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, its blackened twigs promising so much direction. But what real opportunity can its dead claws point the way to? Continue reading →