Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sellars has had considerable experience as a puppeteer, but he forgets that people are not puppets. Unlike puppets, people get embarrassed, awkward and fidgety. Mime is a very difficult art which requires absolute control and subtlety. So when the actors are asked merely to improvise whatever they want on stage in approximate time to the poem, with little direction, they are often reduced to exaggerated gestures, uncomfortable muggings, and an aimless messy shuffling on stage...
...again. During the intermission, the cast meanders in and tears back the white sheets to reveal the insane maze-like set with everything from bathtubs, to free-standing fireplaces and rows of chandeliers hanging a foot off the ground and a hundred other incongruous objects littered across the stage. As in the first act, there is peripatetic delight in easily-overlooked details, like a severed mannequin hand here, or a broken champagne glass there. And it is in this serendipitous affection for strange objects, sounds and images that the main pleasure of the production comes...
...town women, apparent veterans of Krok concerts, clamoring for seats in the front row of Sanders. Half-way through a song in the second half, when a bearded and chivalrous Krok stepped out into the audience to take a random young woman by the hand onto the stage, it occurred to me what the seating ruckus was all about. I suppose it must be traditional by now that a pretty young thing gets escorted onstage so the thirteen finger-snapping young men can ooh, aah, ooh at her while 1400 ticketholders in the audience can only pity the young thing...
...that threat just set the stage for McEneaney's explosion, and the chance for the upset went down the drain...
...scenes and set the eerie tone of the show, develop insect-like personalities. And in a long, wicked laugh, the dark underside of Puck is revealed. The elaborate production has been weaved together by the people who brought The Beggar's Opera to Adams House last year. In the stage's flood of dark blue light, lie back and be wooed. Performances continue tonight through Saturday at 8:15 p.m. in the Quincy House dining room. Tickets...