by Tony Annicone
GAMM Theatre’s opening show of their 38th season is “Describe the Night” by Rajiv Joseph, the Obie Award winner for Best American Play. The show spans 90 years and is set in Russia, eastern Germany, and Poland. We meet real life author, Isaac Babel, a wire-journalist, and writer of fantastic tales as he wanders the countryside in 1920. He soon develops a friendship with Nikolai Yezkov, a Red Cavalry Captain who insists on fact-based unimaginative stories. Babel’s diary about Soviet history is woven through the show wonderfully.
