In Humberto Dorado's one-hander "The Keening," the audience meets an unnamed woman who is a "keener," a hired mourner who cries for us all. But in Marissa Chibas' breathtakingly honest perf, this ...

Keeners were the women of rural Ireland who were traditionally paid to cry, wail and sing over the bodies of the dead at funerals and wakes. Their role was to help channel the grief of the bereaved ...