Going ‘Under’
A single light illuminates the face of a well-dressed man onstage. He launches into a cryptic monologue describing a dream he had about his little brother. “You disappeared, like you never was,” he tells his unseen sibling. The light fades out and the tenor sax eases in, and we are transported into a dark, dramatic world of sex and murder.
In “The Underneath,” writer Susan Soon He Stanton DRA ’10 successfully draws from the film noir style of the 1940s to create a mysterious crime drama. She crafts a dreamlike world of intrigue, complete with the essential convoluted plot, erotic...