This interdisciplinary course considers the power of the stage by focusing on the elements and contexts of symbolic actions, crossing the lines usually drawn between theater, performance art, and performative acts in culture and everyday life. Theater is a symbolic social space, enacting both the community that unites us and the divisions that keep us apart.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Peter Marks reviews "Black Watch" in The Washington Post
Peter Marks' review today agrees with the unanimous praise for this production:
By the end of 110 remarkable minutes in Shakespeare Theatre Company's Sidney Harman Hall, I was in tears, moved as much by the enthralling stagecraft as by the virile commitment of the superb, 10-man cast. Director John Tiffany, assisted by experts in movement (Steven Hoggett) and music (Davey Anderson), creates astonishing tableaux, whether depicting warriors in meticulous formation or in the simple act of reading letters from home.
To pass up "Black Watch"- which runs only through Sunday - is to deprive yourself of the theater's most ingenious portrait to date of the war in Iraq and of modern warfare in general.
Find the whole review here.
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