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...feminine character of the play.Tom E. Osborne ’08 brings an added dimension of complexity to the show with his characteristically skillful lighting design. Vacillating between rich yellows that accentuate the wooden furniture and dusty earth of the set and harsh white lights that suggest the underlying tension and scrutiny of the omnipresent “neighbors,” the result is simple but effective. It suggests the schizophrenic divide between the warm atmosphere of a family at home and the harsh problems that underlie their interaction.Although the music drowns out the actors at times, sound designer...
...Eurydice are the strongest aspect of the updated story. In addition to giving the myth a much-needed feminist boost, the two stories of Orpheus on Earth and Eurydice in Hades create a parallel structure—Eurydice comes to accept her reality and Orpheus rejects his, heightening the tension between the two characters, who don’t directly interact (except in scenes that take place in Orpheus’s imagination) until the final scene.Both characters have a sounding board and interlocutor who challenges them to let go of what they hold dear. For Orpheus, it is John...
...lost his ability to tell a story either. In Ghostface's dexterous delivery, a line like "Workin' out, all I curl is my index finger" is less a boast about control than one more detail in a life of paranoia. The production puts equal value on melody and tension and even has room for nostalgia--9 Milli Bros. is a Wu-Tang reunion--but the truth is that Ghostface is better...
...points out—and that in the future lingers uncertainly. At the same time, the audience sympathizes with the outdated variety show, and its closing, the end of an era, implies that something wonderful is really being lost. “It’s a very nice tension between saying go forward into the future…and also looking back, the tension of what’s lovely and needs to be preserved,” Streep says.“Prairie” addresses that tension on several levels, notably by casting the budding multi-media...
...Father who Must Be Killed,” rotates between the perspective of an angry step-father, an omniscient narrator persuading a girl to kill her father, and a retrospective account of her actions. This time the occasional interruption by the child chorus works to heighten the very apparent tension and confusion. The clear Morrissey element is that there is no cleansing to the killing; it eliminates one problem, but he is not shy about realizing that there are no cure-alls, no really effective balms.Upon first listen, many are annoyed by Morrissey’s self-absorption and melodrama...