Word: prosceniums
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Once upon a summer's morning, on the stage of the Opera House at Rockport, Me., a lanky bearded man in striped shirt and suspenders, looking as if he were off a potato farm, sits on a piano bench beneath an 1890s-style white-and-gilt proscenium arch. At the First Annual North Atlantic Festival of Storytelling, Michael Parents is speaking of creation...
...earlier this year will be happy to hear that Figaro is staged straight, with period costumes by Rita Ryack. But the traditional mise-en-scene does not petrify the show. Edmunds has placed the Countess's bedroom, the courtroom, and the other havens of aristocracy underneath a patently fake proscenium, upstage; in the wings, stretching around the audience are the kitchens, dressing rooms and lofts of the servants; and most of the action, appropriately enough, occurs in the middle ground. Figaro's wedding procession winds through the audience and the several rendezvous in the Count's garden take place under...
...elaborately bored, I guess, is how you'd describe her. She comes equipped with an ingeni(e)ous echo, a snotty little girl's voice placed piercingly over the audience. Most of the other special effects have a deliberately plodding quality: the magician is lowered--haltingly--from the splashy proscenium on a "magic carpet"; an actor stands on a platform that is then turned round and round by other actors to indicate movement through space or disorientation; a charmingly flustered little girl (Tamsy Johnson) removes her ape head at the end of the show and recites--haltingly--a speech about...
...perfumed, black-tie crowd that poured into Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera house last Friday was in for a surprise. What were those subway-style graffiti doing all over the proscenium arch? What kind of message was it, spelling out the names of Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc and Maurice Ravel, composers of elegance and wit? And what was all the barbed wire doing out there on the naked stage, not to mention the forlorn, bullet-torn French flag...
...tape again with still another angle on lago as he evilly fingers Desdemona's hanky. And look! lago is curling the old lip just a trifle. Nice curl too, eh, Chuck? This chap was learning lip curling when the rest of that cast couldn't find the proscenium arch with both hands. Incidentally, about that hanky -you know, the star himself bought that hanky for 79? at Lamston 's just before opening when it turned out the prop man used the real thing as a dustcloth. Now back to the action onstage...