Sarah Ruhl's 'Melancholy Play' casts the blues in eccentric hues at InnerMission
It takes a perverse sense of poetry to make a grin sound grim. But leave it to Sarah Ruhl to achieve that early on in "Melancholy Play," her charmingly oddball 2002 work now getting a revival with InnerMission Productions. Its central character, a bank teller and siren of sadness named Tilly (Hannah...