Word: staging
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fire broke out when one of the actors accidentally threw his lit cigarette on a rubber tarpaulin behind the stage. Seconds later, smoke began to rise from the back of the stage...
Amazingly enough, Moss accomplishes not only the easy part of the job-removing all the stage's physical accessories-but much of the hard part-actor-audience communion-as well. And in doing that, he makes a powerful case for the validity of an ideal Grotowski theatre...
...somewhere in between. And because critics actually can be any of these things, their job is a lot harder than many people think. It is not always easy for a reviewer to clear his head of pre-curtain-time emotions and look objectively at what's doing on the stage...
...context, maybe you can understand how remarkable it is to me that Leland Moss's production of the Chekhov play not only kept me awake for its entire three-and a-quarter hour duration-but sometimes even succeeded in making me forget everything else except what the actors on stage were giving to the audience...
...else-all let their souls pour over the auditorium from time to time if not all the time. Lori Heineman as Irina and Andre Bishop as Andrei go even further than that, opening themselves up to let us see their entire nervous systems almost every second they are on stage. No matter how self-enclosed you are upon arrival at the Loeb during the next two weeks, you simply will not be able to pass up Heineman and Bishop's "poor" gift of their uncovered hearts. As you'll discover, Grotowski is giving poverty a good name...