Review: Still Life with Iris by Steven Dietz, University of Texas

by Michael Meigs
Published on November 01, 2008

For the Halloween performance of this children's fantasy I had the Joker on one side of me and Marilyn Monroe a couple of rows behind. But theirs were probably not the fantasies that Dietz was seeking to fulfill.

Steven Dietz wrote Still Life with Iris for the Seattle Children’s Theatre, which produced it in 1997.The UT production now onstage at UTPAC is as marvelously iridescent as a soap bubble lifting into the night sky. It won’t be much longer lived than a bubble, either, with only 8 performances scheduled.  Scenery, costume, lighting and special effects are impressive, as well they should be – the back page of the program reads like a movie title crawl, with …

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