David's Redhaired Death
by Sherry Kramer

“...Sherry Kramer's inventively structured, colorfully written and frequently lyrical play....

The narrative fluidly shifts back and forth between the present and the span of a few days two years earlier, when Jean and Marilyn met and Jean received the fateful phone call from home informing her of David's death.... ...this thoughtful meditation on loss....”Douglas J Keating, The Philadelphia Enquirer “...Kramer is working with some provocative material: Jean and Marilyn, a pair of red-haired temptresses (or so they like to think), meet in an enchanted boudoir setting of bent willow and diaphanous draperies, find that they share a million and one likes and dislikes, old boyfriends, nasty habits and family patterns, and fall in love because of that almost magical twinship....

Kramer does, however, have a way with verbal imagery.

Woven through the script are wonderful references to fairy tales—Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel...The playwright is also adept at monologues chock-full of telling details....”Pamela Sommers, The Washington Post “...All the scenes are interspersed with lines from previous scenes and foreshadowings of things to come, so there is a coiled, spiralled tension instead of the suspense of an ordinary linear plot.

Except for their monologues about death—and the one opening the second as is a stunner—the actresses are always in duet.... ...DAVID'S REDHAIRED DEATH is a stirring, annoying and difficult piece of work.

But an absorbing one....”Elizabeth C Donahoe, The Washington Blade "...Kramer's play is like a puzzle: after slowly and painstakingly connecting a series of dots, one uncovers an integrated image out of what appeared to be chaos...."Mary Shen Barnidge, Reader (Chicago)