The set changes are out of the Japanese theater style and they are not intrusive in the least and presumably created by the stage manager Dane Urban.“The Sound Inside” could easily have been called “The Silence Inside,” for both exist in this play. Wozzeck was actually the first complete recording of an opera I ever purchased, when I was in college (the blood and guts performance by Pierre Boulez, with Walter Berry and Isabel Straus). It looks fantastic, the pacing and puzzles are on point, and the sound design is as devilishly unsettling as they come. We may think she is talking to us, her unseen but clearly perceived audience, but she is fulfilling a personal need, relating her history to herself in order to get a real handle on how things might have been done better to achieve her needs.About five minutes before the play begins, sounds start to invade the theater — sounds of birds, guttural voicings, other things. This is a dark play with very little about it to allay the chill of a remove plotted by the playwright. Everything that happens to her in this play, including Christopher’s self-revelatory monologues and accusations, is what she deserves, so it’s what she gets. He and Hochman are helped by the artful vision of David Cromer, directing this play as a series of arrogant fragments imbedded in a story-telling mesh that hides the stage top to bottom, side to side. It is almost as if he draws the light to himself. Wozzeck is one of my favorite operas. He really does dominate spaces and he is riveting. He takes the stage. My mom requires two thin...Dutchman set, photo @ Ken Howard New Wagner productions around the opera world are considered Events. As her story progresses, Bella, as played by Parker, becomes less and less sympathetic and more to be pitied than censured.Pity is a pitiable state. The soprano twirled defiantly. The principal character, Bella Baird, a successful author and teacher, is dying of stomach cancer. Knowing that her chances of surviving the cancer are nil, she ultimately befriends the boy in as serious and sincere a way as possible and engages him to administer her three-point suicide injections. As you can see here https://www.nationalopera.gr/en/ Greek National Opera is doing a very important work. For its entire 90 minutes you are dying to know what will happen even while hoping to forestall the knowledge.” This play surrounds its magical realism sets designed by Alexander Woodward, and its awkward story-telling with Tennessee Williams-like narration, again highlighted by the intensity and direction of light, sometimes sparkling props instead of people, making wonderful effects and concentrating our attention on things other than the people.Cromer never really takes us away from Mary-Louise Parker for long.
Met's New Wozzeck: Waltzing Into Misery; The Sound Inside Spoilers William Kentridge's Wozzeck, photo @ Ken Howard The actual Vienna might be celebrating the holidays with its traditional series of Christmas/New Years concerts that are filled with merry waltzes, but in rainy New York the Metropolitan Opera there's a very different, iconic Viennese work on display. With Rachelle Lefevre, Matt Whelan, Matt Nable, Emily Piggford. I enjoyed your review!Ken I am seriously convinced you cannot have a bad production of Wozzeck. As though writing this story rather than living it, she narrates her life, its actions, its meanings, its daily existence as though a microphone was taped to her jaw and someone, somewhere, was recording her story for humanity to listen to over and over in the future. We are very lucky to have these kind of productions in our country. Mary-Louise Parker stars in a world premiere by Adam Rapp, directed by David Cromer, about a Yale professor facing down her won mortality. Adam Rapp, the playwright, worked alongside director, David Cromer, to bring The Sound Inside to life in a quiet and steady flow of words and detailed references to several authors, including books of the two writers on stage. The Sound Inside By Adam Rapp Directed by David Cromer “Twitter is the mother of mental syphilis.” Illness sits securely at the center of the two lives on stage in Adam Rapp’s new play, “The Sound Inside,” which is receiving its world premiere performance on the Nikos Stage at the Williamstown Theatre Festival right now. Reviewing for The New York Times, Jesse Green called it “an astonishing new play. She glowered and smirked a...Art, life, and other scribblings. photo @ Ken Howard,van den Heever and Ventris, photo @ Ken Howard,Wozzeck in the tavern, photo @ Ken Howard.
I am glad I saw it at a matinee, for moving from this theater into a gloomy night atmosphere could have been overwhelming. Hochman is both young and dynamic. Don't miss it!Hamilton and Burr The United States on July 4, 2020 might be the bleakest it's ever been since, well, idk ... the summer of '68?...Tony and Maria pulled apart, photo @ Sara Krulwich Every year I try to take my mom to one Broadway musical. Bella is a woman whose single-minded devotion is to herself. Heather Gilbert’s evocative lighting design hones in on Hochman whenever he is on stage. No space has relevance without this man’s body invading it, taking it over and filling it with emotional outpourings, physical outcroppings, psychotic outtakes from a life that might be fiction or, horribly, fact. Photo: Carolyn Brown.Would you also like to receive our weekly Real Estate newsletter?Would you prefer to receive only the Real Estate newsletter. It is an occasionally disconcerting style in which to perform a play. This is a one-of-a-kind theater experience, one you won’t forget easily.Willl Hochman as Christopher Dunn and Mary-Louise Parker as Bella Baird in the Willaimstown Theatre Festival production of 'The Sound Inside.' A strange experience and probably not to everyone's taste, it is an extreme display of negative energy utilized in a positive fashion.Illness sits securely at the center of the two lives on stage in Adam Rapp’s new play, “The Sound Inside,” which is receiving its world premiere performance on the Nikos Stage at the Williamstown Theatre Festival right now. This year it will be performed in Greece by the Greek National Opera and of course I can't wait to see it! I have a video of the Salzburg livestream.Berg's opera is truly mythical!