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...They gave me the text to look at, and [Lewis] too," he said. "I would love to see them get their slot, and I hope they can get the folks at the [American Repertory Theatre...
...actors talked to nearly 200 people and amassed some 400 hours of interviews over the next year. Verbatim excerpts from those interviews make up the text for The Laramie Project, an unusual amalgam of play and documentary that is about to open in New York City after an acclaimed run in Denver. There, with many Laramie residents who are portrayed in the work sitting in the audience, the show drew standing ovations. "It brought a whole new focus on events," says Casper, Wyo., Star-Tribune reporter Tiffany Edwards, who choked back tears on opening night in Denver. "That...
...Martijn Hosterler's Trollius and Cressida is by far the most ambitious of the productions that will go up in the next week. Hostetler was tired of seeing Shakespeare's work spoiled by stuffy productions. "I'd seen too many Shakespeare plays treating the text in this academic and really esoteric fashion that really inhibited the audience's experience," he said. He decided that Trollius deserved something entirely different. His concept is to set the text within a post-apocalyptic desert rave, an environment that he feels will underscore the pomp and vanity of many of the characters. For Hostetler...
...minimalist production of Romeo and Juliet directed by Kathryn Walsh '00. The show will take place on the steps of Memorial Church and will employ no set and limited costuming and props. For Walsh, working under limited conditions is actually somewhat liberating as it "allows us to use the text as a starting place rather than some time period...
...Rounding out the group is Josh Edelman's Americanized, Beat Era Twelfth Night. Looking into the text, Edelman saw the opportunity for such an updated setting in the freewheeling idiosyncrasies of the characters. "They're all nuts, absolute nuts," he said. "The play seemed to me to have a kind of giddy (and ultimately foolish) individualism that only made sense to me in Northern California." To him, the wide-open world of the Beats and the Jazz Age provides the backdrop necessary for one of Shakespeare's more outdoor comedies...