Liz Hayes (left) and Bobbie Steinbach, the aspiring protégé and the older veteran writer, respectively, in Donald Margulies’s play “Collected Stories’’ at New Repertory Theatre.
(ANDREW BRILLIANT/BRILLIANT PICTURES)
Stage Review
Their tales reveal ambition, betrayal, silence
Liz Hayes (left) and Bobbie Steinbach, the aspiring protégé and the older veteran writer, respectively, in Donald Margulies’s play “Collected Stories’’ at New Repertory Theatre.
(ANDREW BRILLIANT/BRILLIANT PICTURES)
“Collected Stories,’’ a tightly constructed drama by Donald Margulies that is now at New Repertory Theatre under the direction of Bridget Kathleen O’Leary, maps the shifting terrain of literary friendship, ambition, and betrayal in a fashion that is less “All About Eve’’ villain-and-victim than a simple illustration of Joan Didion’s famous observation that “writers are always selling somebody out.’’ What makes the New Rep production so engrossing is that when all is said, done, and written, both women have paid a steep emotional price.
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