Review: ‘Louisa Gillis’ explores the corrosive power of old grudges

Review: ‘Louisa Gillis’ explores the corrosive power of old grudges

The world premiere play that opened Saturday at North Coast Repertory Theatre is named “Louisa Gillis,” but the title character never appears in the 90-minute family comedy-drama. Instead, Louisa is ominously present in the minds and hearts of her survivors, who have been gradually poisoned over the decades by the list of demands she left behind in her four-page “Hudson Letter.” Her husband Steven Gillis, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Shakespeare sch…