Beyond Romantic Comedy for 'Chasing Ophelia'

 

Neurotic writers manipulating their self-aware fictional characters isn’t a new device, but unlike similar stories, The Bard’s Town’s funny and engaging “Chasing Ophelia” isn’t concerned with picking the navel of the writer’s creative processes or artistic tensions. For a romantic comedy, this play’s concerns are remarkably, well, theological: is an unseen, omniscient being really in charge of us, and how do we deal with feeling abandoned by him?

Written by Doug Schutte and directed by Scot K. Atkinson, “Chasing Ophelia” made its world premiere in May 2011 as The Bard’s Town Theatre’s debut production. Executive director Schutte and artistic director Atkinson have made a name for their small theater in the meantime, so they decided a remount was in order to give new patrons a chance to see what their early, loyal audience voted “Best Theatrical Production” in the 2011 LEO Readers Choice Awards.

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