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...scene. The action continues, but suddenly Scheib has become a member of the crowd, sneering at Lorenzo, running after the mob, pulling up a chair in the Happy Gardens Chinese Restaurant (a hotbed of Republican agitation against the powerful Medicis). It’s as though once de Musset??€™s exaggerated characters have figured out who they are, Scheib can calmly walk into their midst, already in character himself...
...Mainstage has ever seen. In addition to the Chinese restaurant and the pasty-colored American ranch house that comprise the set, a large video screen hangs over stage left, streaming out scenes from the interior of the house. Margo notes dryly that Scheib’s proposal of de Musset??€™s Florence also “didn’t say ranch house...
Thus far, the semester has been a prodigiously productive one for Harvard theater. However, the Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s incredible production of Alfred de Musset??€™s Lorenzaccio, which went up this weekend on the Loeb Mainstage, is far more than simply this season’s showcase piece: kinetic, elegant and held together by visiting director Jay Scheib’s tremendous sense of style, Lorenzaccio is easily the best piece of theater that the Mainstage has seen in years...
Reviewing Lorenzaccio’s acting is difficult, because Musset??€™s characters have been elided into each other in the script’s adaptation by Paul Schmidt (who also pulled translation duties). In other words, the show is deliberately (and rightly, from a thematic point of view) presented with a staging that blurs the lines spoken by the show’s large cast...
This fall, director Jay Scheib, who has worked extensively in Germany and New York, will come to Harvard to direct Alfred de Musset??€™s Lorenzaccio, a satiric play dealing with a failed republican revolution during the Renaissance...
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