A Play for Alaska, About Alaska
BY DYLYN PETERSON
Staff Writer, UAS Whalesong
“They Don’t Talk Back” endeared itself to me as soon as I stepped foot into Perseverance Theater.
The set design was incredible. It more than accomplished its job of looking like a medium-sized house in a small Southeast Alaska village. The attention to detail impressed me; a small piece of carpet was duct taped to the wooden floor to be used for drying feet, for example, or the unlabeled cardboard box where one of the leads keeps their NES cartridges. One of the bedrooms doesn’t even have a door, just a hanging sheet. I can’t tell you how many times I saw stuff like that in my time in the villages. Continue reading “A Play for Alaska, About Alaska”