Katrina: The Bridge portrays effective images

During the Depression, the Works Projects Administration Federal Theatre Project produced (among other things) the Living Newspaper series, stage documentaries based on newspaper accounts of recent and current events, usually treating poverty, unemployment and other social problems.

Some of the Living Newspapers (such as Arthur Arent's One Third of a Nation, regarded as one of the best) were even made into films.

Like most of that series, Katrina may boast more immediate interest than lasting importance. But director Steven Wallace gives it an earnest sense of purpose.

The slice-of-life feeling is set as we enter the theater, with four of the characters already perched in various states of sultry disarray on set designer Kevin Rigdon's convincing chunk of freeway.

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