Merriment Isn’t the Only Thing Being Forced in Brontë Sister House Party

There’s no torment quite like forced merriment. In Brontë Sister House Party, Courtney Bailey’s play now running in a production by Nu Sass under the direction of Kathleen Barth, the titular icons of Victorian literature are tormenting themselves with nightly soirees, laboring toward a moment of “celebratory reverence” that will bust them out of purgatory. […]