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...Martin] was really interested in making the Huntington more pertinent to American theater as a whole, to the artists who lived and worked in this city and to the American playwright,” says Ilana Brownstein, the Huntington’s literary manager, whom Martin hired. “We don’t look to do experimental, directorial-vision plays, which the ART does. Our theater looks toward the playwright and the play as text: How do we mount a production that is not experimental, but reimagines...
...Martin] was really interested in making the Huntington more pertinent to American theater as a whole, to the artists who lived and worked in this city and to the American playwright,” says Ilana Brownstein, the Huntington’s literary manager, whom Martin hired. “We don’t look to do experimental, directorial-vision plays, which the ART does. Our theater looks toward the playwright and the play as text: How do we mount a production that is not experimental, but reimagines...
...single white-room set, tries to find a cinematic fluidity using sliding walls to cut between scenes, while film clips of happy couples reminiscing (a successful device in the original) are often projected on a screen in front of the set. It's a good try, but since playwright Marcy Kahan uses much of Ephron's screenplay verbatim there are too many rapid-fire scenes. Every setting change, however brief, disrupts the momentum, and the effect is wearying. The cinematic production simply emphasizes Kahan's failure to find a way of making this work in the theater...
...experiments with flying—featured in this show, with pretty results—and her membership in the Pilobolus Dance Theater. She has little experience in directing “straight” plays, has noted repeatedly in interviews that Shakespeare is “my first dead playwright,” and says she has no interest in directing another Shakespeare play any time soon...
Compared to Mozart’s charming masterpiece, the two works composing LHO’s program make for a darker evening. Stravinsky’s “L’histoire du Soldat” is based on a play by the French playwright C.F. Ramuz set to music for septet. It tells the story of a soldier who trades his violin with the devil for magical powers...