All Eyes and Ears
Description
In 1961, a Cuban family moves into a grand house—where materfamilias Carmen can spy on her new neighbors—in Cuban-born playwright Rogelio Martinez’s penetrating if disjointed play. Filing reports on suspected counterrevolutionary activity earns Carmen money, prestige and power, allowing Martinez to touch on gender and class conflict. But the playwright packs in so much that his play veers toward the episodic. INTAR artistic director Eduardo Machado’s production skims over the familial relationships, and tentative performances keep the characters’ struggles on simmer instead of boil.—Diane Snyder
