Middle East Meets West in a Small Syrian Hotel

[Shana A]

Middle East Meets West in a Small Syrian Hotel
Richard Termine for The New York Times

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/05/17/theater/reviews/17dama.html?ref=theater

And then there's Elena (Dolya Gavanski), the hotel pianist and the play's Greek chorus. A Ukrainian Marxist Christian transsexual, she inhabits yet a third play, meant to be more philosophical and less conventional. It's too much for "Damascus."