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Originally Posted by Spikesgirl
...it would have been great if our SD had stretched a little more. Just goes to prove what you can do with some "thinking outside of the box"...
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I'm not sure I agree. I wonder about setting
Streetcar in a mental asylum, thus turning it into a "memory play" (it isn't
Glass Menagerie, after all!) is a proper interpretation of Mr. William's work. I'm particularly disturbed by the "...add in a doctor watching silently from the front edge of the stage and a recurring apparition of Blanche's long-dead husband..." I wish I could see the production, as it is one of my favorite plays.
Van, kudos to your staff for making bold choices; I'm just not sure I agree with them.
In his Production Notes for
Merrily We Roll Along, a show in which the story is revealed in reverse chronological order, Sondheim states "in no circumstance is the order of the show to be reversed or altered." Must now playwrights include the phrase "No characters are to be added or deleted, or scenic locales altered"?
Please discuss.