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...uncharted island, Adam is rescued by a group of sailors that tell him a children’s story about the kingdom of Gildoray and its lost prince. Soon, Adam believes that he is actually the lost prince of Gildoray. The rest of the play features short scenes of Adam??s quest for Gildoray, during which he battles pirates, warriors, and gryphons, falls in love and rescues his young bride, liberates a village, saves a young couple, and faces natural disasters, to name a few of his adventures...
Arguably, the only interesting aspect of Bunin’s play is that it features more than thirty characters played by six of the seven cast members. Though the effect is at times dizzying for the audience, this accurately reflects Adam??s dizzying quest. Moreover, the play’s interwoven frames of reference—as Adam begins living the story he is told—are nicely echoed in the versatility of the actors who, except for Adam, play anywhere between three and seven roles each...
HRST’s actual production of “The World Over” was very impressive, particularly the set design by Thalassa G. Raasch ’09. The ship, with which some of Adam??s travels take place, was extremely well constructed, even beautiful. At the beginning of the play, a map of some of Adam??s travels was projected onto the ship’s white sails. This extremely professional construction proved useful throughout the play, particularly during the hurricane scene that HRST impressively portrayed at the end of the first...
...Originally choreographed by Jules Perrot and Jean Coralli, and set to Adolphe Adam??s moving score, the ballet tells the story of a young peasant girl, Giselle. In Act I, she falls in love with a man disguised as a fellow peasant, who is actually the noble Prince Albrecht. When she learns that he is engaged to another, she goes mad and dies of a broken heart...
...Although Ponomarenko’s Giselle is the star of the ballet as a whole, both Rykine’s Prince Albrecht and Combes’ Myrtha manage to outdance her in Act II. Ponomarenko’s greatest accomplishment in this act is to take the recitatives of Adam??s score and convert them into recitatives of her own movement. It is beautiful to see how the changing intonations of the music are embodied in the dance...