Word: set-design
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Credit must also go to Janie Fliegel, the reigning queen of Boston set-design, who constructs an apartment for the Slopers that demonstrates their wealth but also communicates how isolated and restricted Catherine is by her social station...
Amadeus may seem an unlikely choice for a junior common room production. Not only does it require 18th century style set-design and costumes, careful musical synchronization, and nearly 30 scene changes--there is also a film version fresh in everyone's minds; unfair comparisons would be very easy to make. But director Nicholas Weir silences the doubters with a powerful show, one that highlights all of playwright Shaffer's wickedly good language...
Director Weir has done a fine job of dealing with the multiple demands of the play. With great wisdom, he has been extremely faithful to both the words and the ingenious stage directions of Shaffer's script. Furthermore, the costumes and set-design are convincing and even the taped musical excerpts are only slightly disorienting. All in all, a night with Amadeus is a night full of delights, ironic and otherwise...
What are you doing next year. The question is elided into five syllables. Grad school was the only answer; if not part of the triple crown (medicine-business-law), then at least time out, perhaps in England, to study set-design. After that, blank. Steven's brother was a lawyer, on the West Coast, forever regretting wasting his life in professional training...