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magidLast night I went to the Publick Theatre's ultimate performance of Arcadia (Tom Stoppard). This is the fourth time I've seen it, the first time outside, and I was impressed with how well it worked.
The stage was set up with columns along the back, a cluster of doors at the right, and a long tongue of stage coming into the right-hand aisle. There was a step or two, and the table off to the right (disconcerting to me, somehow), and that was pretty much it (I wonder how the stage is used for their other production, Comedy of Errors.).
The story continues to be compelling to me, the two eras overlapping in one room: the early nineteenth century mathematical prodigy and the social dramas that swirl around her, leaving her mostly untouched; and the late twentieth century academics trying to figure out what happened, with social dramas of their own. There aren't many plays that combine doing history, maths, and poetry appreciation. And the dialogue, though reasonably impossibly perfect for actual people, keeps the audience thinking and laughing.
The technical challenges were about doing theater outside; I was glad we got seats in the fifth row, not any farther back. I'm also more used to the modern flirt to be much more aggressively dressed than this one was, but that wasn't a problem, just different.
Definitely two thumbs up.
I wonder if I can work Comedy of Errors into next week....
The stage was set up with columns along the back, a cluster of doors at the right, and a long tongue of stage coming into the right-hand aisle. There was a step or two, and the table off to the right (disconcerting to me, somehow), and that was pretty much it (I wonder how the stage is used for their other production, Comedy of Errors.).
The story continues to be compelling to me, the two eras overlapping in one room: the early nineteenth century mathematical prodigy and the social dramas that swirl around her, leaving her mostly untouched; and the late twentieth century academics trying to figure out what happened, with social dramas of their own. There aren't many plays that combine doing history, maths, and poetry appreciation. And the dialogue, though reasonably impossibly perfect for actual people, keeps the audience thinking and laughing.
The technical challenges were about doing theater outside; I was glad we got seats in the fifth row, not any farther back. I'm also more used to the modern flirt to be much more aggressively dressed than this one was, but that wasn't a problem, just different.
Definitely two thumbs up.
I wonder if I can work Comedy of Errors into next week....