by Katie Toole and Adam Cousins of The Maine Edge
The title intrigues you first: from an aphorism attributed to Einstein, concluding “beauty dies and fades away, but ugly holds its own.” It is a familiar sentiment skewed sideways; a refraction, a sliver of broken mirror. A pretty rhyme for a vaguely malignant reminder, and your first indication that you are intended to witness cruelty entwined with kindness, pain with beauty.
“Ugly Lies the Bone” is still making a name for playwright Lindsey Ferrentino … Read more.