Word: musset
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...could have guessed that precisely three centuries later Alfred de Musset, France’s Shakespeare and George Sand’s hopeless lover, would transform Lorenzo’s story into tragic farce. And even then, no one could have expected that two centuries after that, Lorenzo himself would be transformed—into a skinny, pale, 21st-century girl, with springs in her legs and melancholy eyes...
Scheib stages Lorenzaccio from a 1993 translation by Paul Schmidt, who didn’t always take de Musset literally, but nevertheless ended up being faithful to him. Lorenzaccio was meant to be kept contemporary, whether that meant seeing the chaos of Renaissance Florence in 1830s Paris or 21st-century America. What Scheib didn’t know, right up until the show was cast, was that the scoundrel Lorenzaccio would wear braids...
Scheib had to tailor Lorenzaccio not only to the cast but to the stage. Alfred de Musset never intended Lorenzaccio’s five acts to be staged, and the speed of the play, the warped, cinematic quality that has dressed up the tragedy as a farce, can’t wait for conventional set changes. The video camera lets the set remain fixed, and the action to move from room to room. It also lets the audience “see around corners,” an idea that Scheib takes very seriously...
...opening night for the Visiting Director’s Project Lorenzaccio, directed by Jay Scheib. Paul Schmidt’s translation of the Alfred de Musset play is a steamy depiction of 1530s Medici Florence. Through Nov. 22. 8 p.m. Tickets $12; $ 8 students and seniors. Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle...