Word: cycloramas
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Eric Martin's set was the only evidence that someone had thought about the play. The stage is an enormous disk, tilted toward the audience and partly surrounded by a cyclorama, on which is projected a series of wonderfully evocative slides. I have never seen, on any amateur stage, such a beautiful and effective set; I have never seen, anywhere, such disparity between the stage and the staging. The blocking, the lighting, the choreography, the props--all were designed for a rectangular stage, and not very imaginatively designed at that. And the monotonous drone of the music--the same...
...sense of his physical presence on the stage. His voice never varied, his posture never changed; he was dwarfed by the set. In one of the two or three almost effective scenes in the production, Griffin had only to stand still and be silhouetted against the cyclorama. He couldn't even do that; he twitched and shuffled and glanced again and again at some mysterious object he was holding in his hand. The script...
...they were charming. The ruins of a chapel for the second act came, with no detail changed, from the imagination of some great Romantic poet. DeShong's first act sun surpassed the moon that followed it, but both looked implausibly delightful, stuck up against Loeb's giant sweeping cyclorama. Stephen L. Tucker lit the show competently, although there appeared to be a few miscues in the execution of his plot...
...stage. Stephen Aaron, director, has employed the apron stage with the audience ranged around three sides; and he has designed a performance that is becoming to the play and platform. Todd Lee's setting consists of levels, shapes and areas that culminate in a round peak against a glowing cyclorama; and Walter Benson's lighting plot is superb, indicating the range and richness of the electrical equipment. No doubt it will be years before the staff learns to use the full potential of the new theatre. The staff has begun by reminding us that its technical proficiency it great...
...should be warned that the author is one up on him from the beginning. Novelist "Sergeanne" Colon is not one person but two-an apparently indefatigable French man-and-wife team (Serge and Anne) who claim to have primed themselves with 300 volumes of history before painting their cyclorama. Their scholarship is not intrusive...