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...audience’s pre-show chatterings and that of the play’s. Stone ties a knot around this introductory tension between voyeuristic guilt and pleasure. He engages the audience in his challenge to untangle the thread which he proceeds to reveal in glimpses throughout the show??s “17 Scenarios for Theatre,” the play’s subtitle. However, this strand proves to be so complexly woven through and around itself that its fragments suggest a continuity but no sense that understanding is entirely possible; ultimately the viewer must tease...
...rush storylines so often, yet this one was mercifully left unfinished for another episode. The justification for Tina’s lie was surprising yet believable, as was Artie’s reaction to her admission. That kind of impressive plotting gives us hope that some of the show??s looming crises (Emma/Will, the fake baby, Puck vs. Finn) won’t be handled with cop outs but with clever, satisfying writing...
...show??s set continues the innovative removal of traditional theatrical elements present throughout the production, striving to destabilize and jar the audience. “Attempts” makes ample use of the Experimental Theater, scattering the seats into groups that are diffused across the black box space...
...show??s peripheral elements serve to provide a solid background to its comic madness. The lighting design of Tiffany M. Bradshaw ’10 contributes effectively to the mood, despite a chaotic and disorienting series of color changes near the finale. The gaudy Elizabethan costumes, created by Pugliese, further add to the production’s merrily boisterous feel...
...biggest mistake with this production lies in the fact that Bensussen’s greatest innovation is a technique for framing the show??not for staging the show. This meta-theatricality is not enough to sustain a two-and-a-half hour production, and once the actors lose their scripts and take their roles on more fully, problems abound. The barroom décor no longer makes sense. Actor Ross Bennet Hurwitz is left in drag in the role of Bianca for the whole show, an odd move that seems to invite the audience to find gender commentaries...