Word: liviu
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PLATONOV. Rumanian director Liviu Ciulei blends farce and great sadness in Chekhov's early drama, at Harvard's American Repertory Theater...
PLATONOV. Romanian director Liviu Ciulei blends farce and great sadness in Chekhov's early drama, at Harvard's American Repertory Theater...
...dignity and a nonpareil in languorous erotic indulgence. Bottom (Abraham) and his pals, the "rude mechanicals," are for once believable working men, unpatronizingly evoked if, alas, therefore a little less funny than usual. This Midsummer will not stand in memory with Peter Brook's 1971 landmark staging or Liviu Ciulei's 1985 war of the sexes. But it is a vibrant start to a welcome project...
...listed for the U.S since 1906. The two-part, five-hour production now enlivening the stage of Minneapolis' Guthrie Theater becomes a 17th of considerable distinction. The scenic effects are accomplished with stunning finesse (heightened by Santo Loquasto's virtuoso set design of mirrored panels). Rumanian Director Liviu Ciulei (pronounced Leave-you Chew-lay), artistic director of the Guthrie, never scants the intellectual, philosophical and refreshingly comical ramifications of the play. This Peer Gynt only fitfully moves the heart, however, and that may be because Ciulei chooses to keep a tight Brechtian leash on emotion...
...gave the theater its credo-to strive for excellence in the classics. His immediate successors, Douglas Campbell and Michael Langham, also British, helped to make the Guthrie a kind of flagship of the U.S. regional theater movement. In recent years that image has been tarnished, but the choice of Liviu Ciulei (pronounced Leave-you Chew-lay) promises to burnish it again. A Rumanian who speaks five languages, Ciulei, 58, was trained as an architect and went on to scenic design, acting and directing in Bucharest. He did his first work in the U.S. at the Washington, D.C., Arena Stage...