Juliana Smithton is a scientist renowned for her expertise in pharmaceuticals. She’s highly respected as a professional, but she’s becoming unhinged as a result of divorce and being estranged from her daughter. In an effort to put the pieces of her life together she visits “the other place,” a cottage on Cape Cod that she once owned. Things are not altogether what they seem at first glance. Sharr White’s troubling, engrossing and sometimes humorous drama debuted on Broadway a year ago; Ensemble Theatre’s D. Lynn Meyers is staging its regional premiere, featuring veteran actress Regina Pugh as the enigmatic Smithton.
Through Feb. 15. $18-$44. Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati, 1127 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine, 513-421-3555, ensemblecincinnati.org.
This article appears in Jan 21-27, 2015.
