Saints, sin and Erik Ehn: mysticism ignites the plays--and theories--of a theatrical visionary.(Cover Story)(Biography)
American Theatre, May, 2004 by Wren, Celia
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ERIK EHN HAS A WEAKNESS FOR IMPOSSIBILITY. A WIND-IN-A-SIEVE idealism wafts through his saints-plays project, designed to create a play for every haloed human known to Catholicism (there are over 10,000, if you count the beati). A rope-of-sand utopianism twists through his hopes for the RAT movement, the anti-organizational organization of alternative theatres he has conceived and championed.
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Clashing eras and realities commune in his wrenchingly lyrical scripts, which tend to contain impractical, phantasmagoric stage directions like "The wolf holds the moon in its teeth. The ...
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