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...year he moved The Merchant of Venice to Venice, California, just down the beach from Malibu. Always a skillful director of actors and stage movement, Sellars has often seemed capricious in his grand recontextualizations. But in this case, he has created a modern setting that is ingeniously apt and vivid...
...international circuit. Boccanegra is a triumph of that partnership. The first act's set, again a house and a garden, is closely modeled on Petrarch's villa outside Padua, a mellow, roseate brick with a graceful staircase. To gaze at it is to be transported to the vivid politics of 14th century Genoa...
...because of a health problem. Scott Bradley's soaring set--the backyard of a ramshackle tenement building, complete with earnest little garden and the tallest, steepest stairway since Jacob's ladder--is abundant in telling detail. Along with Constanza Romero's flamboyant costumes, it brings to vivid life the 1948 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that is the locale of the play...
...Pinsky's translations, passion triumphs over literalness and the result is that Pinsky--the author of several poetry collections--reveals his true identity in his work: He is more a poet than a translator. The fruit of Pinsky's labor, a vivid and passionate Inferno, is the benefactor of this bias...
...international circuit. Boccanegra is a triumph of that partnership. The first act's set, again a house and a garden, is closely modeled on Petrarch's villa outside Padua, a mellow, roseate brick with a graceful staircase. To gaze at it is to be transported to the vivid politics of 14th century Genoa...