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...Scheib says he firmly believes in “tailoring characters to actors,” even if it means not knowing the gender of the lead until auditions are over. So Lorenzo became Kate Walker...
...nothing else, this peopling of the stage is useful for Scheib, who often directs by walking on stage and joining the scene. The action continues, but suddenly Scheib has become a member of the crowd, sneering at Lorenzo, running after the mob, pulling up a chair in the Happy Gardens Chinese Restaurant (a hotbed of Republican agitation against the powerful Medicis). It’s as though once de Musset’s exaggerated characters have figured out who they are, Scheib can calmly walk into their midst, already in character himself...
...Scheib is a graduate of Columbia’s theater program and spent most of his professional life in Europe. In Salzburg he directed a show that used the text of Herman Melville and the music of Bruce Springsteen; in Budapest, he explored the work of Tennessee Williams. A former student of Robert Woodruff, the artistic director of the American Repertory Theater, he is at Harvard to re-inaugurate the Visiting Director Program, the ambitious undertaking of Margo and the HRDC to give students the chance to work with professional directors...
...wanted somebody who was prepared to come into a student environment and shake things up and go nuts,” said Margo, who is also a Crimson editor. The HRDC Board was most excited by Scheib, who presented, among other ideas, Schmidt’s gritty translation of Lorenzaccio and a vague hint of the theatrical use of “multimedia...
...Scheib had to tailor Lorenzaccio not only to the cast but to the stage. Alfred de Musset never intended Lorenzaccio’s five acts to be staged, and the speed of the play, the warped, cinematic quality that has dressed up the tragedy as a farce, can’t wait for conventional set changes. The video camera lets the set remain fixed, and the action to move from room to room. It also lets the audience “see around corners,” an idea that Scheib takes very seriously...