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...costumes (designed by Amanda C. Shanks ’08) as well as the set seemed to vaguely reference Middle East struggles, but nothing more overt underscored that imagery. What’s more, the characters?? use of swords as well as a single Roman column at the back of the set counteracted the contemporary feel. The column had the practical purpose of allowing stage entrances from behind a screen suspended from it, but its presence confused the setting...
...Though there is a virtue in letting his characters speak for themselves, Barrett’s interpretation as an objective non-Muslim could have further illuminated the American Muslim community. When he does insert his own views, they often appear as one-sentence assessments of the impact of the characters?? actions on the “struggle for the soul of” Islam that are too weak to be effective.While reading about each character individually is enjoyable, and while the information about mystic Sufism is especially intriguing, Barrett’s message would have been stronger...
...Another success of the opening night was Mike Stanley’s work as lighting designer. The attention paid to details in the lighting was impressive. Never was the stage the same color twice in the performance—its hues were constantly changing along with the characters?? moods, in a fantasia of emotions within the forest. The floor was often covered in spots of light, imitating the flood of moonlight flowing through the thick enclosure of trees overhead...
...characters seem flat. There is mention of a brother’s friendship with a rich man’s ailing young daughter aboard the ship, and of a son’s bitter grief over his father’s death, but partly because there are so many characters??brothers, sisters, cousins, in-laws—none of these imagined glimpses into their lives go anywhere or feel very satisfying. Things take a turn for the better—and remind the reader that other people’s families can actually be interesting—about...
...Figaro” is one in which men who are themselves perfidious accuse their lovers of being “false and faithless,” as one character sings. Deceit and pranks that rival those of Shakespeare’s Puck abound in this opera, as the main characters??Kapusta’s Figaro; his lover Susanna, played by Winnie L. Nip ’08; the Count and the Countess Almaviva, portrayed by James B. Onstad ’09 and Katrin D. “Kathy” Gerlach ’07; and Marcellina...