All Entries Tagged With: "dany margolies"
ORDINARY DAYS: 83% Sweet – UPDATED
SWEET The lesson: Simple joys have a way of secretly expanding. If you go into “Ordinary Days” with reasonable expectations, you’ll likely come out feeling as if you’ve just had an experience that was more than a little special. Charles McNulty – LA Times BITTERSWEET Though meant to be ironic because it is a story [...]
MARY POPPINS: 100% Sweet
SWEET Eyre’s direction is spot-on and he has managed to hold onto some of the stories grit. The dances by Bourne are brilliant. The magical set and set pieces (statues that come to life and dance), a kitchen disaster that is all put back together in a flash, are just two of the many wonderful [...]
“Breaking and Entering”: 67% Sweet
BITTERSWEET It’s an admirably complex script, the outcome in doubt up to its denouement. Yet, though director Mark L. Taylor gets considerable mileage from Jeremy Pivnick’s lighting and Bill Froggatt’s sound, the tension comes and goes. Shaw and Bishop do competent work, although his Art Carney aspect isn’t exactly menacing and her nervous emotionalism lacks [...]
“Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo”: 100% Sweet – UPDATED
SWEET An ebullient synthesizer of world data, Joseph is not just alert to the fevered geopolitical madness surrounding us, he’s also endlessly inventive in finding bold theatrical metaphors to depict the extent of the depravity. “Bengal Tiger” marks the breakthrough of a major new playwriting talent. Attending the opening gave me a sense of what [...]
“A Number”: 80% Sweet – UPDATED
BITTER If there is one truth under his lies, it’d be the play’s only singularity: While the clones share a disgust for him, it springs from different reasons. “You don’t look at me the same way,” the widower says of how he tells them apart. But unlike him, we never see the clones or their [...]