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re: Threepenny Opera at Atlantic -- we've had worse

Posted by:	allineedisthegirl 01:58 pm EDT 03/19/14
In reply to:	re: Threepenny Opera at Atlantic -- we've had worse - stan 01:39 pm EDT 03/19/14

I think "impossible" is over-stating it. Great plays are, almost by definition, difficult to get right. And by "right" I don't mean faithfulness to one or another orthodoxy, I mean getting the play to "happen." For every ten Shakespeare productions i see, maybe one or two are good. But those one or two I woulnd't want to miss. Last week I saw Kathleen Turner do Mother Courage. It was a production full of "creative" embelishments (flying by Foy again, ala the Merryl Streep production). But thanks to a combination of felicitous casting and directoral point of view that wasn't at odds with the play, Mother Courage proved to remain very stage-worthy. db

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