Word: woodlands
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Richard J. Woodland Solon, Ohio
...where Deramo goes hunting with Tartaglia, is filled with parrots whose gorgeous plummage creates a fluttering rainbow swirling in the air. Clever back-lighting on a pale skrim projects a prancing menagerie of lions and tigers and bears. A poor of light, lit from below the stage, suggests a woodland stream around which the overhead-lighting throws a sun-dappled forest floor. The fragile nobility of the two stags, with their breathtakingly lovely coats of the palest pastel, steal the forest show...
...realm of the idyllic, bucolic life. All is merry for a time, while the villagers laugh, socialize and celebrate the harvest. But unfortunately this story is not fated to have the traditional "and they all lived happily ever after" ending. Instead, the village is transposed into a gloomy woodland scene inhabited by ghostly, spiteful women. A nightmare replaces the fairy tale...
...while the first act is uninspired, the second is wonderfully haunting and mystical. The woodland of willis becomes real and for the first time we truly enter the world of the fairy tale...
...night sky. Ian McKellen is fine as Platonov, the country schoolmaster whose bitter gaiety attracts women to him like flies to wild honey. But the true star of Christopher Morahan's production-and, these days, of the entire National Theater-is Designer John Gunter. His garden and woodland sets provide the perfect trysting place for sobriety and anarchy, and the majestic train engine he sends chugging toward the audience at play's end is more effective than any of the loco motion in Starlight Express...