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...first video live-feed the Loeb Mainstage has ever seen. In addition to the Chinese restaurant and the pasty-colored American ranch house that comprise the set, a large video screen hangs over stage left, streaming out scenes from the interior of the house. Margo notes dryly that Scheib??€™s proposal of de Musset’s Florence also “didn’t say ranch house...
Taken overall, however, Lorenzaccio is subtle even in its moments of seeming heavy-handedness—or, rather, it’s heavy-handed in a professional, evocative and functionally dramatic way. Animated by Scheib??€™s supreme sense of action, Lorenzaccio is a persuasive winner, an earnest effort at presenting its audience with complicated, challenging theater...
...However, the Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s incredible production of Alfred de Musset’s Lorenzaccio, which went up this weekend on the Loeb Mainstage, is far more than simply this season’s showcase piece: kinetic, elegant and held together by visiting director Jay Scheib??€™s tremendous sense of style, Lorenzaccio is easily the best piece of theater that the Mainstage has seen in years...
...kudos are due to the accomplished Scheib, whose ability to orchestrate multiple points of action and complicated shifts in blocking is well-nigh incredible. The play’s lengthy first scene, in which the duke and his comrades carouse and otherwise raise drunken hell, is absolutely enthralling, and Scheib??€™s consistent ability to maintain plenty of plausible onstage activity never flags. Not surprisingly, the play’s simplest scene—a dialogue which two characters conduct entirely on their knees on an otherwise empty stage—is the play’s weakest point...
...ART’s massive video screen, which is being increasingly integrated into Repertory productions, is put to fabulous use by Leah Gelpe, Scheib??€™s collaborator and Lorenzaccio’s Sound and Video Designer. In a perfect solution to the problem of the set’s complicated division of interior and exterior spaces, a pair of on-stage camerapersons send live footage of various scenes directly to the screen. Issues of form aside, this makes for moments of tremendous dramatic power—intense moments of dialogue and close-ups on actor’s faces...
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