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Q. Your type of approach to what should go on in a theatre has included a rejection of most of the trappings of the traditional theatre. The Serpent is performed on a relatively bare stage with no costumes and a minimum of props and lighting. In the new productions. what...
So the meat of the play as it is scripted-the interplay of Sade's world view and Marat's-comes off poorly. The abstract discussions of what the revolution was about, where and why it failed. and what the failures mean about mankind. remain abstract. unembodied in subtler means...
The production, under the direction of Laurence Bergreen, exaggerates the comedy and practically explodes with motion and exuberance which create both setting and character in the absence of props and costumes. In the opening scene, the ship caught in the tempest in depicted by the men in the cast standing...
The typically grim, fairy-tale props in Dog Years (1963), for instance, were magic spectacles that allowed postwar German children to see exactly what their innocent parents were actually doing between 1939 and 1945. The cruelest metaphor for greedy indifference occurs toward the end of The Tin Drum, when Oskar...
Minnie's Boys does not present the birth of stars, merely the birth pangs of stars. It is a little like watching a boy finger-painting and then brushing a few crude daubs on a canvas, after which these scenes are assembled in a show called Mama da Vinci...