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...plays the gardener Antonio) skillfully express the difficulty of deceiving each other on the spot, eliciting laughter from the audience. Instead of setting the opera in the 18th century, director Vincent chose to set this production of “Figaro” in the 1960s. Her choice adds a layer of complexity to the work by drawing a parallel between the women’s liberation movements and the importance that the female characters have in cooking up mischief as much as men in the opera. In this update, the characters take the role of politicians, with the Count...
...play itself is a highly dramatic take on the moral gray areas hidden behind the black and white habits of a Catholic middle school in the 1960s. Where formal propriety has overtaken ethical responsibility and the appearance of certainty is all that remains, the characters struggle to reconcile order and truth. Jones leads the cast as Sister Aloysius, a teacher who plows headfirst through level after level of rigid Catholic bureaucracy to protect her students from the sexual advances of Father Flynn (Chris McGarry), a popular priest...
...Webb seems to have gone upscale. When it was started in the 1960s, it was aimed at the average family, but now you have homes costing more than...
...Environmental Studies (VES) website, the program is “an intervention in the circulation and distribution of artists’ video.” It began as a way to broaden the audience for this particular medium and to make video art more accessible.Video art developed in the 1960s and 70s as a cheap and accessible medium for artists and audiences alike. Its nature allows for broad distribution, making video art a preferable way for artists to get their work out. In more recent years, however, it has become less available to the general public and much more expensive...
...wanted to give the production some historical depth without making it a period piece, so I set the opera in the late 1950s/early 1960s. It made sense to present the Count and Countess as operatic versions of John F. Kennedy and Jackie Onassis, considering the Count’s frequent infidelities but overwhelming charm, and the Countess’s penchant for forgiveness...