Love Letter to ‘Venus in Fur’ at the Public

 

If you live in the Pittsburgh area, Whitney Maris Brown and Christian Conn deliver performances worth fighting downtown traffic for. Is there any better praise?

Certainly there is, and I give them both plenty in my little rave (including my use of the word “gut-thrumming”) at:

http://patheatreguide.com/2016/06/11/theatre-review-venus-in-fur-at-pittsburgh-public-theater/

“Venus in Fur is a fascinating play that trades on a promise of sensuality to show us something far more interesting: two people who no amount of stripping will reveal the naked truth about. They must put on the roles of others to find themselves.”