Word: morphoses
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BLACK-CLAD DEVILS hang from a lattice-like set, the Seven Deadly Sins stalk the stage holding papier mache animal masks and a blueleotarded Good Angel sits perched on a platform above a placarded face that radiates heavenly sincerity. It's an impressive spectacle, a testament to the superb technical...
Unfortunately for Marlowe's dramatic scheme, Derek Pajaczkowski, an otherwise competent actor, is badly miscast as Faustus. Visually wrong for the part--Faustus is a mature scholar, not a brawny youth--Pajaczkowski plays the doctor as a brash, young man who struts around the stage with a sustained smirk. While...
Despite some fine acting, Morphos' Doctor Faustus is uneven and often unsatisfying. While some scenes, like the parade of the Seven Deadly Sins, are theatrically effective, other, potentially more dramatic sequences, like Faustus' encounter with Helen, are pallidly executed. The balance of this production is tilted toward comedy, both because...
There are definite problems with this approach. For one thing, Morphos must sacrifice some suspense on the altar of comic effect, and as a result, the final revelations lose part of their force. In addition, her emphasis curtails the range of emotions implicit in the script, since characters as different...
The Mousetrap. A pleasant enough production of an Agatha Christie murder mystery about eight people snow-bound in a manor house. The play, which has been running continuously in London for 23 years or so, is hardly weighty intellectual fare. The Leverett House Arts Society production, however, boasts a fine...