Word: gabrieleã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...impulse to try something new with this play is understandable. Oleanna is Mamet’s most topical play—it arose on the heels of the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings—and it often seems less sharp than some of his other works. Gabriele??€™s interpretation has the benefit of making the female student less a victim than she seems in most productions, but it is at the expense of making her largely unsympathetic and rendering the professor with virtually no variation throughout the evening...
...most surprisingly effective design element comes from Anthony J. Gabriele??€™s ’03 sound design. I can’t think of a show that has incorporated so much music to so great an effect, alternatively moving the audience from spontaneous laughter to the brink of tears without a word spoken on stage. The range of style and genre within the selections prevent the era of the setting from being positively nailed down and lend to the timelessness of the production. Though the microphones (somewhat of a necessity when playing at so great a distance from...
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