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...good and evil vampire sects: the Vampires and the Vampaneze. Darren casts off his Sperry topsiders in exchange for a red leather jacket, joins the freak show, and meets the inevitable circus love interest. While Darren woos his half-monkey, half-frumpy high-school freakheart, Steve joins the dark side and starts killing former teachers. When their final dramatic confrontation takes place, Steve explains to Darren with comic seriousness that the Vampaneze think he’s “awesome”: “They say I have a destiny, or whatever.” Like many...
...Cirque du Freak” is quirky and winning, a light-hearted standout in the otherwise dark and dramatic vampire craze sparked by the heavy-handed moralizing of “Twilight.” Ignoring the soul-searching gaze of any teen who shuffles across the screen, Weitz’s film is just as wondrous a freak show as the circus that is its subject...
...rarely-performed English opera, which will run through Sunday, to the 1970s with the hope that the inaccessibility of the classical original will melt away with the modernizing adjustments such as the transformation of the original priests into hippies. With this new setting mixing the lighthearted and the dark, the new production aims for a sense of relevance and freshness...
...complementary arias that Semele and Jupiter share, for example, focus the story on their relationship and demonstrate the varied layers of emotion of their characters. This lack of simplistic dichotomies—both in terms of their relationship and in terms of the light and dark mixture as well—is another theme of the production...
...Semele” is an intriguing challenge, simultaneously ancient and contemporary; but the cast and crew hope the interplay between the baroque and the psychedelic, between the light and the dark, will help “Semele” bridge the ages and stand as a uniquely modern opera...