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Canosa's production abounds with physical interaction in order to give the actors something to do with their hands. This interaction compensates for the lack of props, but could not make up for the scads of garbled dialogue; Strindberg's profound dialogue frequently loses intensity before it reaches listener's...
The stage perhaps takes understated symbolism just a little too far. Props, costumes, walls--everything is white, the white of outmoded Edwardian prudery. An iron lattice like the bars of a cage, also white, forms a backdrop. By providing so much evidence of the family's obsession with respectability, the...
Mercifully, Ghosts is not much about romantic drears, or even introspection. Corigliano set out to compose an opera buffa, an 18th century-style comic opera such as Figaro or Cosi Fan Tutte. As realized on the stage, scene after scene has a vivid, antic quality that somehow escapes being overly...
Liz Levy and Anne Rippey's Medieval costumes and Kathryn Smith's props manage to convey a sense of the era without an extensive set. Unfortunately, clumsy set changes interrupt the flow of action and leave the audience impatiently waiting for the next scene.
Right now it's October, and in The Rock we let October stay just as long as she wants to." The man who opens Stephen King's Needful Things talks like that. He's kind of a stage manager, getting the props and the people in order. Kind of like...