a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun): the title says it all, offering a definition for an absent word. The thing is the thing unsaid. For the play’s three couples, language falls short: beautifully, tragically, sublimely.
By Ferron Delcy /Nov 24, 2025
iPhoto caption: Virgilia Griffith in rehearsal for Rosmersholm with Jonathon Young. Photo by Dahlia Katz.
“We get to dig into something in the present moment and also reflect on the world and our global community,” says actor Virgilia Griffith. “That's what makes it special, that we're doing the play in 2024 and that it will be in conversation with the world.”
Typically known for directing contemporary feminist works, Donaldson insists the interplay of love and betrayal keep this work as relevant today as it was four decades ago.