Top-shelf gossip. JEFF CARPENTER
Orpheus Descending delivers the goods you’d expect from a Tennessee Williams play: lots of tragically trashy characters expressing their feelings via long monologues and quick quips, heavy use of metaphors featuring the flora and fauna of the US South, and tons of top-shelf gossip and earnest hand-fanning.
The story goes like this: Looking to quit his ramblin’ ways and find his Penelope, a hunky troubadour named Val (Charlie Thurston) descends into a hell of country life and weird trailer-park vibes. He gets a job working for Lady (Kemiyondo Coutinho), an older Italian immigrant who runs a general store owned by her dying and racist husband…
