I Feel Bad About Not Enjoying Myself at Private Lives

by Rich SmithIsis Phoenix as Amanda and Kit Lascher as Elyot in Private Lives. Jeff Carpenter
Walking through the doors of Inscape Arts—the old INS building just south of Chinatown-International District—plopping down in a padded folding chair, and taking in a stage scattered with badly painted backdrops and props filled my heart with a strange kind of hope.
Maybe—despite my instincts, and despite everything that the scenic design was telling me—this shoestring production