
Watching Aleshea Harris’ “Is God Is” play out in its fast and furious regional premiere at Old Town’s intimate A Red Orchid Theatre is akin to watching Aeschylus filtered through “Kill Bill” and sonically sprinkled with a dose of Spaghetti Western music landing like parmesan on blood.
There’s also a bit of the Biblical to the piece, directed at a blazing pace by Marti Gobel through a story as wrathful as the Old Testament and populated by a family as unnerving, unforgettable and slaughterous as their forebears at the House of Atreus.