Review: The Positively Serene Death of Sir Ritter Hans von Wittenstein zu Wittenstein by Aggressive Muse

by Michael Meigs
Published on August 29, 2008

There’s lots of imagination on display here. Some of the actors are superb, while others offer us characters that are engagingly grotesque. Some, including some of the principals, don’t really understand theatrical diction.

Aggressive Muse productions lives up to its name with this disturbing production of The Positively Serene Death of Sir Ritter Hans von Wittenstein zu Wittenstein. Under the direction of playwright/adapter Josie Collier, assisted by Kate Meehan, the company transforms a translation of Jean Giraudoux’s piece of 1939 Ondine, turning it into a far darker and more confused tale than the original. Collier and Meehan first adapted Ondine in 2004. This further adapation, according to the program, intends“to explore the Jungian …

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