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...Sganarelle," originally staged by Andrei Serban, is an ART favorite because of the simplicity in its production, said Jan Geidt, ART Director of Press and Public Relations. "We call Sganarelle the show that never dies on the tour that never ends," she added...
...Angeles this month, two repertory staples got the full treatment: the Piccolo Teatro di Milano presented a visionary version of Shakespeare's The Tempest in Italian, directed by Giorgio Strehler, while London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in its U.S. debut offered the premiere of Andrei Serban's wrongheaded setting of Puccini's Turandot...
...Like Serban, Strehler introduces anachronisms into his production - the commedia dell'arte for the comic duo of Trinculo and Stephano, for example, and a hint of Peking opera mannerism for Ariel - but they effectively underscore the contrasts between the spirit and human worlds, making the confrontation even more pointed. This is a Tempest of clarity, strength and purpose - exactly what was lacking in the Royal Opera's Turandot. The cross-cultural irony is inescapable: the English company presenting the Italian opera had failed, but the Italians staging an English classic had made a glorious success...
...will present two productions in Los Angeles, a revival of Richard Brinkley Sheridan's the School for Scandal, directed by Jonathan Miller, and Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author which will be directed by Andrei Serban, Scandal was the last presentation of the 1982-83 season, while Six Characters will be performed this...
...upheaval in society's most basic values adds greatly to the general level of anxiety. Even our pleasures are often fretful. When Psychiatrist George Serban of New York University conducted a nationwide poll of 1,008 mostly married men and women aged 18 to 60, he found that their greatest source of stress was the changes in society's attitudes toward sex, including sexual permissiveness and "the new social roles of the sexes." While stress might have once taken the form of an occasional calamity, it is now "a chronic, relentless psychosocial situation," says Dr. Paul Rosch, director...