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Also, not only were the lighting cues simply disconnected with the action but they sometimes seemed even downright manic. Though the finale to act one (Billy’s “Soliloquy”) ended with a nice silhouette against a black background, it took a trippy migration through the entire color wheel to get there. Also through much of the first sequence in town, everyone to the right of the stage was inexplicably caught in a harsh electric pink light very evocative of a striptease...
Lithgow will be the first professional artist to speak at Afternoon Exercises in 27 years, the most recent being Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in 1978. No one with a background in professional theater has given the address since playwright Thornton Wilder spoke at the 1951 Commencement...
...sure, though, the most interesting parts of the production were the gendered costumes and props. The men wore colorful and flamboyant tunics while the women and “eunuchs” (feminized men) wore plain monochrome dresses or academic robes, thematically highlighting their inferior status as background characters...
...sure, though, the most interesting parts of the production were the gendered costumes and props. The men wore colorful and flamboyant tunics while the women and “eunuchs” (feminized men) wore plain monochrome dresses or academic robes, thematically highlighting their inferior status as background characters...
Orston, who came from a lower-class background, voiced his anger through his “incredible skill for writing farce” said Arthur, who read nearly a dozen plays before selecting this...