Word: stage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Broadway season when eight of the eleven new plays have been comedies, three of them sex farces, and the cheapest of four new musicals cost $5 million to stage, it is heartening to see work as simple, spare and serious as Metamorphosis. One just wishes it were better. Despite an effective stage- acting debut by dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, the most ballyhooed highbrow event in the theater so far this year is all but bereft of emotional force. At the finale, two actresses stand rigid, their cheeks glazed with tears, yet much of the audience reacts only with uneasy titters. Director...
Nothing is wrong with the source material, which has inspired countless other stage adaptations. Franz Kafka's story of a man who one day wakes up as a giant insect has provided one of the 20th century's hallmark nightmare images. The essence of the horror is that there is no explanation for it, no deeper meaning, no instructive or redemptive metaphor: the suffering just is. In the transmutation of Gregor Samsa, the world ceases to be predictable or rational; natural and moral order disappear. Critics have found in Kafka's vision hints of everything from the Holocaust to AIDS...
...like Gianfranco Ferre) and some naughty boys (like Gianni Versace). But, in Armani, it produced just a | single world beater. Paris, on the other hand, can still offer a wider spectrum: sumptuous Saint Laurent, engaging Lagerfeld, generative Miyake, fast-flash Gaultier, ebullient Patrick Kelly. As ever, it is center stage, the arena on which designers want most to play, especially if they are coming on (like Gigli) or consolidating (like Valentino...
...everyone is so pleased with More. His perturbed wife Alice (Allison Weller), provides a strong support performance. Pacing the stage, wringing her hands, worrying over her husband's stubborn adherence to ideals, Alice fears that her husband behaves too much "like a printed book...
...overall strong cast in the Leverett House Arts Society's production of Bolt's play is bolstered by an able and consistent production crew. Set in the corner of the Leverett House Old Library, the stage is sparsely but tastefully decorated with Tudor-like furniture and props. To add to the period ambiance is the wooden arched lattice work that hangs from the ceiling, making one feel as if one has really stepped back in time...