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Perhaps all this was inevitable: those existential props, the Man Between and the Border, need a fresher approach than laconic narrative, no matter how charged with significance. Hemenway's best passages remain celebrations of the ordinary: meals, lovemaking, conversations with friends. For him, as for so many contemporary American...
While Lowell House's Dining Hall is not the atmosphere most conductive to an operatic production, the modest set with few props and simple staging enables the cast to move around easily, focusing our attention on their voices and gestures, rather than unnecessary production, as the cast deftly conveys the...
There also is the realization that as the electronic ringmasters took over politics, the people of Iowa became little more than props in a national entertainment. The lowans choose the delegates but somehow that role seems to diminish next to the self-important punditry of network anchors and political consultants...
Creating such a consummate and pure fantasy is a difficult task, and sometimes the flaws threaten the illusion. The second act doesn't reach the same energy of the first for 40 minutes. During that section, the pacing slows and the score, often a little repetitive, becomes boring. The production...
Donoso's magic is munificent but chilly; he aims to beguile the senses rather than engage them. Near the end, he closes up shop: "The curtain must now fall and the lights come up; my characters will take off their masks, I will pull down the sets, put away...