 “The Gulf,” part of “Love Is a Blue Tick Hound” at Rapid Lemon Producitons. Pictured: Donna Ibale and Aladrian C. Wetzel. Photo courtesy of Rapid Lemon Productions. Love is a Blue Tick Hound, and other remedies for the common ache by Audrey Cefaly is presented by Rapid Lemon Productions at Baltimore Theatre Project and Capital Fringe as a part of the D.C. Women’s Voices Theatre Festival (January 12 - February 17, 2018)There is a little bit of Lucinda Williams in Audrey Cefaly's four poignant one-acts collected under the title Love is a Blue Tick Hound at Rapid Lemon Productions. Cefaly's characters, like those in Williams' country-blues ballads, ache for love. They yearn for something better than the lives they've scratched-out of limited circumstances along the Gulf Coast. They are a little bruised, a little used-up.
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 "Imogen" at Pointless Theatre. Pictured: Katelyn Manfre. Photo by DJ Corey Photography. Imogen is Shakespeare's Cymbeline, re-imagined in an original adaptation by Charlie Marie McGrath at Pointless Theatre and presented as a part of the D.C. Women’s Voices Theatre Festival (January 18 - February 11, 2018)The great critic William Hazlitt describes Imogen, the much-maligned heroine of Cymbeline, as "the most tender and the most artless" of all Shakespeare's women. And it's true—considering she has grown up in what seems to be a politically volatile and corrupt kingdom, she is remarkably unspoiled. She is trusting to a fault, blind to the ulterior motives of those around her (which are many, most of which are nefarious.) After all sorts of horrible abuse, she is returned to the throne at the end of the play, but it's not exactly a happy ending—you can't help feeling that her restoration is small reparations for the pain she's endured.
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