GeorgeandDot said: "I'm not sure that it's entirely her job to make sure those elements like lighting and set come together. I will say that her acting direction is sublime and, to me, that's really what's most important. The design, however, is deeply flawed, and pretty ugly, but you only worry about that for like 10 seconds and then you focus in on the phenomenal performances."
It's not the job of a director to create a fully integrated production? Mmkay...That's precisely what her job is.
There's nothing wrong with acknowledging when a director's work is strong in certain areas and weak in others.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Every time there was a long scene change, Elaine May emerged in the next scene wearing a new costume. So it might have been related to that.
Personally, I did feel the play was overdesigned and would have liked something a little more impressionistic like in the Glass Menagerie. I find that a lot of the scenery for Scott Rudin’s plays is more elaborate than it needs to be, though that could be a coincidence.
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Posted: 10/26/18 at 8:58am