The Jungle is an astonishing talent box deserving of superlatives. A staggering production, with a thunderous performance by Caroline Goelzer. Once again, director Bain Boehlke has demonstrated that no matter what the material, new or old, he has an uncommon gift for finding the heart of a play and making it beat like the wings of a divinely mad bird. Jungle director Bain Boehlke has placed the play in a living room of a New England college professor. Despite the plays length, hardly a moment is wasted.
Events build, clash, and recede in perfectly executed waves of emotional turbulence.
When the silences come, they too are filled with foreboding. In short, the Jungle has successfully taken an almost entirely dismissed sacred cow and injected it with an exhilarating dose of theatrical hormones. Chances are, you will never see a better production of Albee's play. The Jungle's production of Samuel Beckett's elusive masterpiece, starring Michael Sommers and Kevin Kling, is nothing less than a revelation. But, thankfully, that's something Jungle productions never seem to have.