Orson's Shadow at Silver Spring Stage

Orson Welles directing Laurence Olivier in an absurdist drama sounds like a genius SNL sketch, but the production really did occur in London in 1960. Orson's Shadow is a sharp-witted but tender-hearted re-imagining of that fateful production, one involving not only "England's Finest Actor" and "America's Greatest Director" but Vivien Leigh, Joan Plowright and the great critic Kenneth Tynan. Egos rampage during this backstage drama that captures the English-speaking world's greatest talents struggling to master not only the play, but their art and their own enormous personalities. Seth Ghitelman directs Orson's Shadow, a witty and incisive depiction of the drama of theater and life itself, at Silver Spring Stage.