Imagine you're listening to and watching a video-supplemented radio
play. Imagine seeing eight black-clad actors (Kate Duchene, Anastasia Hille,
Kristin Hutchinson, Sean Jackson, Stephen Kennedy, Liz Kettle, Paul
Ready, and Jonah Russell) fulfilling their emoting assignments while also taking on the many technicians' jobs -- the camera-crew work, the sound-effects demands, the silent props placement and removal, the behind-the scenes dresser chores. If you've got those images in your head, you've got a crystal-clear vision of director Katie Mitchell's singular Waves, now in a very limited run at the Duke on 42nd Street courtesy of Lincoln Center.

This stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf'[...]