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The focus is on the power or the practice of art. Kenn Rabin’s Gymnopédie #1 (directed by Molly Noble) plays unexpected variations on Erik Satie in the key of sex between a flattered professor (Brian Herndon) and a student (Lisa Morse) with an agenda.

The characters in “Five Women in the Same Dress” aren’t caricatures but complexly real people. The cast gets it all unassailably right — especially the finely honed Southern sense of absurdity, something that seems to elude many more experienced actors. How they do so is the wonder and magic of theater.

Based on a true story, and adroitly directed by Molly Noble… [“Pack of Lies”] is a universal story about the mutual affection of two women, despite external realities that have thrown them together.

It’s exhilarating.

Ecce Homo is a charming, bittersweet vignette of a married couple preparing to give their final performance in the dying age of vaudeville that is put to pasture by the advent of talking pictures. Brian Herndon and Holli Hornlien interact beautifully in Jonathan Luskin’s perfect 10 minute play under Molly Noble’s sensitive direction.

COM’s director, Molly Noble, keeps the audience entranced as her ensemble rolls, falls, dances and performs exotic—and erotic—tales of ancient Baghdad.

Near-perfect director Molly Noble makes even the newest actors play well together. It is a credit to Noble that the only stars onstage are the ones painted on the set. Surreal and poignant, fast and funny, this ensemble delivers charming entertainment in a season when we can let go and believe in love.

The tension carries over, in a naturalistic vein, to a midnight argument over guns and safety in Malachy Walsh’s The Safety of Pools. Molly Noble’s gentle staging evokes the underlying bonds between a concerned Liam Vincent and fearful Rinabeth Apostol as exhausted new parents.

[One] of my favorites [is] historically based, Richard Weingart’s Isle of Dogs, Part II directed by Molly Noble, a witty two-hander in which Shakespeare and Jonson meet over a pint at the local tavern.

…five unmarried sisters spontaneously join hands and explode into a spontaneous rite of exultation and release. It is an amazing scene, and, in the hands of award-winning director Molly Noble, it is a harrowing one. For in Noble’s riveting and stark interpretation, it begins with a strangled cry and erupts into a white cloud as the sisters slap and rub their faces with flour. For one brief moment, they give in to their desires, laughing, screaming and shrieking like a pack of wild banshees in a fierce, primitive, nearly tribal danse macabre.