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...blurring the line between past and present, war and peace, truth and lies, “The Trojan War Will Not Take Place!” challenged its audience??s assumptions about declarations of war and affairs of state. But as they tackled these political obstacles, the cast also reexamined their notions of love and beauty—and this is where the play’s strengths lay. Produced by Katherine K. Schick ’10 at the Agassiz Theatre, “The Trojan War Will Not Take Place!” shone with standout...
...play has met with no opposition here because audiences come to the show with enough knowledge about the realities of Japanese culture to be able to laugh at the absurdity of such stylizations. It helps, too, that this particular production plays up the absurdity. Situations differ, however, audience to audience??one can imagine more opposition in California, where a greater proportion of the population retains a historical sensitivity from the internment camps of the previous generation. Reception might vary, too, in the portrayed countries themselves—“The Mikado” opened for the first...
...Miss Adorable,” Patrick began last night, pausing for effect and looking at his wife as the audience??which included people from places as far flung as South Carolina—giggled...
...clouds…,” introducing new elements onto the stage and expanding the triangular relationship of the first two plays physically as well as metaphorically. A video camera that served to bring the television audience into the live audience??s consciousness was featured prominently on stage—a marked contrast from the “On Air” sign that hung unobtrusively in an upper corner during the first two plays. The triangular dynamic of artist, words, and music became a four-point relationship between Voice (Epstein), Man (Solis), the camera, and a screen...
...audience viewing them for the first time. “Bob [Scanlan] knows these pieces very intimately and was able in a certain sense to decode them for us...The audience absorbs the moment because we are doing it with understanding,” Epstein says. The audience??s comprehension of these pieces is something that remains very important to Scanlan, who provides a succinct exegesis before each play while attempting to preserve his audience??s freedom of interpretation. “I have to interpret the pieces to perform them, but this interpretation...