Gordon Cox Theater EditorSubtle, it’s not. But “The Line,” a documentary-style play by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen (“The Exonerated”), cuts to the bone.
In a series of tightly-focused closeup shots, seven yeomen theater performers take on the personas of real-life doctors, nurses, paramedics and other personnel in New York hospitals who caught the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic and cared for its first victims.It doesn’t get any more intimate than this livestreamed event, released on YouTube and on the Public Theater’s website.
Directed with intense rigidity by Blank, the performers look directly into a single camera to speak the minds of those shellshocked medical staff who cared for the early cases of sick and dying patients.
Read more on variety.com