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What Shakespeare did work at creating is the romantic, sunny gaeity that pervades the fairy-tale forest of Arden (which is only one phoneme away from both Eden and ardor). At Stratford, currently, the idyllic glow is enhanced by Robert O'Hearn's scenery, Tharon Musser's lighting, and some of David Amram's music...
...American Shakespeare Festival has a great many virtues. Fortunately, director Jack Landau seems to have gotten most of the nonsense out of his system in his Twelfth Night and has, for a change, approached Antony--given its cast--with a welcome sense of responsibility. Enormously aided by Tharon Musser's lighting, by Rouben Ter-Arutunian's basic but effective settings and stunning costumes (which range from a black-and-gold tent-like shroud in which Cleopatra commits suicide to the sketchiest of breechclouts worn by her Egyptian slaves), and by an extraordinarily precise crew of stagehands, Landau has achieved...
...Allen, and Sada Thompson look pretty and sing well (particularly Miss Allen) as the goddesses Iris, Ceres, and Juno in the brief but beautiful Jonsonian masque arranged by Prospero. Lee Hoiby's incidental music is admirable, though his songs lack distinction. Robert Fletcher's set and costume designs and Tharon Musser's lighting are suitable...
David Hays has designed suitable movable additions to Rouben Ter-Arutunian's flexible basic stage, so that the swiftly changing geographical demands of the text do not inflict between-the-scenes waiting. Tharon Musser's lighting is admirable, particularly the moon-swept night lighting...
...Aronson has added to the play's cosmic atmosphere by suspending in the air a sort of armillary sphere fitted with small spotlights, which Tharon Musser has exploited ingeniously in her extraordinary lighting. The set, furthermore, has to be able to undergo drastic physical upheaval in mid-scene, in the tradition of Wilder's Skin of Our Teeth...