Word: mcanuff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...DAYS. Director Des McAnuff (Big River) and Composer Ray Davies of the Kinks send Phileas Fogg around the world again in a musical at California's La Jolla Playhouse...
...Yale Repertory Theater, then went on to the La Jolla Playhouse, near San Diego. Very little of the language has changed during its development. The biggest changes have come in what used to be the stateliest speeches, which the author has made more spontaneous. Director Des McAnuff and Set Designer Bill Clarke have been involved throughout. But the two-character show has had three casts, and the nuances of performance and even physiognomy have strikingly altered the play's political impact...
...Walk is no mere docudrama or soapbox spiel. Like Shaw, who might have written this play, Blessing evokes his characters as men and not just mouthpieces. He is greatly aided by Director Des McAnuff's understated staging, fine performances from Josef Sommer as the Soviet and Kenneth Welsh as the American, and Bill Clarke's remarkable set: a soil-capped hillside, 29 tree trunks shooting straight up into the skies and, on the far back wall, a framed picture of yet another woods, a reminder that these conversations will echo around the world...
Presumably McAnuff, who wrote, composed and directed this "play with flying and songs," knows what it is all about, but he isn't telling. The Death of Von Richthofen as Witnessed from Earth is incredibly self-indulgent, pretentious, inane, murky and interminable...
Mark Linn-Baker), whom McAnuff apparently fantasizes as clones of Waiting for Godot's Estragon and Vladimir. Stage left features the ornate living quarters of the Red Dragon, Manfred Von Richthofen (John Vickery), who is sometimes joined by his adjutant (Jeffrey Jones) and a swishy fellow pilot in the Flying Circus named Hermann Goering (Bob Gunton...