Are We Alive or Dead? In a Ghost-Haunted Frontier Town, White Rooster Delivers a Noir Fable of Love and Desire
by Elizabeth Jia “Are we alive or dead?” The line arrives like an incantation, hammering its way into the spectator’s consciousness. At long last, I made my way to Lookingglass Theatre’s world premiere of White Rooster—a production that, had it not extended its run by an additional month, might well have eluded my calendar entirely. Ghost Town, Ghost Marriage, One White Rooster The story unfolds in a post–Gold Rush ghost town of the American West, where “ghost” operates in a
