Word: stagings
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...Ivanov is about loneliness and isolation, but not the loneliness and isolation of standing in an empty field. It's about the loneliness and isolation we can feel when we're sitting in a tiny room with our closest friends. Yeremin's decision to eliminate characters from the stage, his attempts to strip Ivanov to its core the way Ivanov himself is stripped to his emotional core is an attack on the text, and the battle that ensues obscures both Yeremin's and Chekov's brilliance...
...their problems comes across in whispers and unsaid words, in the meanings that we hide underneath meaningless social conventions. For Yeremin, though, Chekov's characters must be as grand and deliberate as the sets. Arliss Howard's Ivanov is endlessly and openly angst-ridden. He mopes around the stage so that we cannot help but notice his misery, strips to the waist and spreads his arms like Christ on the cross, and by the end shouts his anguish to all who will listen. Debra Winger as Ivanov's wronged and ignored wife Sarah goes from the almost unbearably saintly (Sarah...
...when we caught the new Cirque du Soleil production, "O," at the decidedly upscale Bellagio hotel ($100 a ticket!) It's insanely high-priced, but if you've never seen a Cirque du Soleil show in your life, the experience is priceless. There are only four productions currently on stage in the U.S.--"O" at Bellagio, "Mystere" at Treasure Island in Las Vegas, "La Nouba" in Orlando and "Alegria" at the new Biloxi resort in Mississippi. I've seen the first three and "Mystere" is definitely my favorite--but that, perhaps, is because it was the first...
...ever see in Barnum and Bailey--in "Mystere," there's an entire sequence of bungee jumping acrobats costumed as birds), you're treated to a two or three minute interlude of dazzling fantasy: a parade of stilted clowns dressed as elephants, a giant inflated snail floating across the stage, a five-foot baby bouncing a giant ball around the theater, a mirror reflecting the audience onto the ceiling. Maybe one day it will be trendy to like Cirque du Soleil--and shows will pop up all over the country just like Riverdance. Oooh. The thought makes me nauseous. Until then...
Master Yon G. Lee leads his class through an exercise, his sweeping arm and hand motions and gliding steps guiding the rest of the group. The motions, graceful and light, make the musky room at the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) seem like the stage for a slow-motion modern dance...