Read Dan Skora’s review of Theatre Nova’s “Katherine,” for It’s All Theatre
Five generations of women, all from the same family and all bearing the name Katherine are the subject of Kim Carney’s new play, “Katherine”, currently having its world premier at Ann Arbor’s Theatre Nova. The story begins in the Deep South near the beginning of the 20th century and ends in Michigan sometime near the present. We meet the first of the five Katherines in a barn searching for her daughter Kitty and carrying on a one-sided conversation with God. Katherine belongs to a family that works a peach farm, and because the peach trees are reaching the end of their cultivating prime, they look to the peanut plant as a source of future income.