I don't know from L'Enfer - but it sounds very interesting.
Back from D.C. and can't figure out why the hotel's system would not let me sign in to HHW yesterday.Immersing myself in a mostly-FOLLIES weekend again was a wonderful wallow. i think Mr. Brantley's review (where e loved Act II, didn't like Act 1) could be a result of the oddest point to settle on for 15 minutes of rumination over the intermission, after the expert rendition of TOO MANY MORNINGS - but stopping there for a pause makes the show feel like it's about so much less than it really is. Maybe get rid of the intermission for a couple of perfs on a Tueday evening and Wednesday and see how it works? Elmore, would anyone listen to you if you made a suggestion like that?
Back from D.C. and can't figure out why the hotel's system would not let me sign in to HHW yesterday.Immersing myself in a mostly-FOLLIES weekend again was a wonderful wallow. i think Mr. Brantley's review (where e loved Act II, didn't like Act 1) could be a result of the oddest point to settle on for 15 minutes of rumination over the intermission, after the expert rendition of TOO MANY MORNINGS - but stopping there for a pause makes the show feel like it's about so much less than it really is. Maybe get rid of the intermission for a couple of perfs on a Tueday evening and Wednesday and see how it works? Elmore, would anyone listen to you if you made a suggestion like that?A TIME TO KILL at the Arena is such an expert depiction of reality of vigilante justice, and by presenting it with great humor and stark realism, seems to endorse eye-for-an-eye and capital punishment by presenting reality without (as far as I can see) comment. Almost Brechtian for me in its alienation. I prefer getting riled up at the theater to being bored, and I was NOT bored to say the least. Bravo to Rupert Holmes and the Arena Stage and everyone for daring to present challenging work, and I did not join the standing ovation because I was a little in shock.
Thanks for the report on A Time To Kill, DR FJL, I've been anxious to hear about it
Of course not. If I were doing FOLLIES, I would try to keep it with no intermission, but you know my feelings about Eric Schaeffer, none of them positive or friendly.
The new Arena Stage building is stunning.Only thing I didn't get about the design: At one point, to get to the street level theater where A TIME TO KILL is playing, and then get back out, we had to go up a flight of stairs only to go down s flight of stairs to get to the level we were on before. This feels like a design flaw, but no one there seemed to find it odd.
Quote from: Cillaliz on May 23, 2011, 05:59:48 AMThanks for the report on A Time To Kill, DR FJL, I've been anxious to hear about itCilla, i think it opened last night. So the reviews that matter should be out pretty soon. I'll be fascinated to see if it affects professional theater critics as viscerally as it affected me.
Quote from: Jrand60 on May 23, 2011, 05:23:37 AMAnd it does include this rather sober photo of all of us at the Proclamation last Friday. This is one lovely photo. I've never seen DR JRand60 look so refined.
And it does include this rather sober photo of all of us at the Proclamation last Friday.
And...Encores! has just announced their 2012 season: Merrily We Roll Along, Pipe Dream and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes