Theresa Rebeck’s ‘Dig’ Adds to a Most Promising Season for Female Playwrights
Loss looms large in ‘Dig,’ and Rebeck reminds us terrible things can happen even when care is taken. Yet ultimately it shows an unshakable faith in our ability, as the survivors, to endure — and, eventually, to regenerate.
The fall theater season is just getting started, and already it’s promising to yield a rich crop of new American plays — in particular by female playwrights. The past week alone brought the New York and world premieres, respectively, of thoughtful, moving works by Rebecca Gilman and Annie Baker. Now, the latest from a veteran stage and screen scribe, Theresa Rebeck, has arrived off-Broadway, and it’s a gem.
Or perhaps a rose would be a better metaphor for “Dig,” Ms. Rebeck’s account of troubled souls connected by an independent plant store, one of many such small businesses across the country now struggling to survive. “There used to be so many little shops like this, all over,” a customer remarks, early in the play. “And now they’re gone.”
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