"Theater depends on collaboration, but some members of the team get most of the credit. Actors come in for praise (or blame) because they're right in front of us; playwrights and directors garner attention as well.

Two productions that opened last weekend, however, draw much of their character and style from the outstanding work of their set designers: Dunsi Dai at Black Cat for "Two Headed," and Philip Boehm at Upstream for "The Polish Egg Man." Their designs illuminate the dramas and enhance the dreamlike quality of both productions.

For "Two Headed," an elliptical story of brutality and friendship in Mormon pioneer days, Dai gives us a curving Western panorama set behind one bare, gnarled tree. If the set isn't as splendid as the Utah landscape, it still manages to convey a vast beauty in the confines of a Maplewood stage. And that tree suggests how hard pioneer life is".
By Judith Newmark, POST-DISPATCH THEATER CRITIC

.--TWO HEADED
The Black Cat Theatre


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