In February, I posted about about the dimensions of character in an oh-so-accessible post entitled A String Theory of Character. Simply put, that post explored the idea that richness of character is determined by the directions in which the meaning of a single action can resonate. When a one-dimensional character acts, the meaning of that…
Well…it’s over. As ever, the closing of a show is both a relief (free nights!) and a loss, and that is doubly so for me with this production. It was an overwhelming process, with the play continually opening up to reveal new opportunities and challenges. As I wrote in my director’s statement in the program:…
(the following review is courtesy of Patrick Lee at Theatermania) (Photo: Shalin Scupham, Oberon: Michael Davis, Puck: Nitya Vidyasagar) Both immediately accessible and thematically adventurous, The Flux Theatre Ensemble’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, at the West End Theater, rewards audiences of all degrees of familiarity with the play. (Photo: Shalin Scupham, Moth: Michael…
(Learn more about Flux’s Midsummer here.) Our first review is in from Backstage, and they’ve kindly made us Pick, calling it “a production of engaging lucidity and immediacy…” (Michael Davis as Oberon in tech) “In addition to his imaginative and intelligent staging within the usual budgetary confines of Off-Off-Broadway…”(Charlotte Graham as Wisp, Kira Blaskovich as…
How does this entry relate to Flux’s full production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream? Things are not good in Athens. It’s important to say that, right off the bat. Theseus, after jilting the Amazon princess Antiope, abducts their Queen Hippolyta. A war ensues between Athens and the Amazons, and while Athens eventually wins, the cost…
How does this entry relate to Flux’s full production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream?(Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Hannah Rose Peck as Cobweb, Caitlin Kinsella as Mustardseed, Tiffany Clementi as Pease Blossom) In Flux’s Season of Transformation, the central theme is how life transforms the body against the body’s will. In Midsummer, that transformation ends in marriage,…
What is the Imagination Compact? And how can learn more about Flux’s Midsummer? 1. What’s the best directed play of Shakespeare’s you’ve ever seen?Inspired and brilliantly funny production of The Winter’s Tale by a grad student at Trinity Repertory Company about five years ago. 2. What Shakespeare play would you most like to direct? King…
How does this entry relate to Flux’s full production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream? So just what, exactly, is actor driven magic? Actor-driven magic: -Is overtly theatrical, with no attempt made to conceal the trick. The audience’s imagination must therefore be complicit in the creation of the magic. -Lives primarily in the body of the…
How does this entry relate to Flux’s full production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream? (Design by Autumn Horne) The sexual union of Bottom and Titania is the heart of Midsummer, and the epiphany that Bottom experiences afterwards is it’s center of gravity. It is a union of the sublime and the grotesque; of the divine…
How does this entry relate to Flux’s full production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream?(Christina Shipp as Bottom. Photo by Isaiah Tanenbaum) Ah, Bottom…how I dote on thee! Misprized most of Shakespeare’s creations, you are so often played as a series of bits and attitudes: they make you the pompous blow-hard tearing a cat, bumbling over…
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