Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dinner music. A pair of "identical" twins wanders confusedly in the garden among those they love and those who love them. This is Illyria, setting of Twelfth Night and one of the prettiest never-never lands Shakespeare ever created, translated with intelligence and sensitivity to a strangely Hollywood-esque Loeb mainstage...
What makes the Loeb show, directed by Sam Samuels, so pleasantly substantial is Samuels's choice of a setting--the lush flesh out the plot and characters with familiar details...
...whoever didn't notice, back when the schedules were composed, this weekend is not exactly the time to launch daring theatrical experiments, like mounting two simultaneous productions of Twelfth Night at the Loeb. Or, for that matter, to continue daring theatrical experiments, like the completely rewritten and updated version of Hair at the Forum, slated to conclude its two-weekend...
Heresy? Maybe. But if so, there'll be a lot of heretics standing on the wrong side of footlights Friday and Saturday nights, at the Loeb, the Ex and the IOP Forum, looking out at rows of chairs whose rightful occupants are boozing it up down in New Haven...
Then, too, there were rehearsals, which, not surprisingly, have overlapped more and more as opening nights approached. The Loeb is only so big, and when both shows rehearse every night, possibilities are limited. Observes Samuels. "There were a surprising number of nights when we were rehearsing the same scene in adjacent rooms--and, for some reason, they always seemed to be louder...