Three Women

On paper it sounds enticing: a rare staging of Sylvia Plath’s sole play—technically written for radio less than a year before her suicide—featuring a trio of ladies musing on pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood. But on paper is where Three Women should have stayed; as theater, it’s utterly stillborn. Plath's words certainly do speak loudly, but they’re muted by the unnecessary, inconsequential action around them.—Raven Snook