Posts Tagged ‘Amanda Schaar’
Baird, John Light the Sky in New Fortune’s Thin ‘Les Liaisons dangereuses’
The French Revolution, and the years before it, inundated the world with news of dire consequences in a particularly failed monarchy. Christopher Hampton’s ‘Les Liaisons dangereuses’ had every opportunity to exploit the revolution in the interest of character development — and somehow, Hampton abandoned its every notion in this nonetheless well-mounted drama.
Read MoreA Catered Affair Marks New Fortune’s Funny, Dark ‘Troilus and Cressida’
New Fortune Theatre Company won’t rest on its laurels, as it’s announced plans for its next production. Meanwhile, its mixed-bag ‘Troilus and Cressida’ on July 25 not only funded the piece but also made us very glad that the forecast show is in New Fortune’s hands.
Read MoreNew Fortune’s ‘Birthday Party’ Puzzles and Enlightens
What if you have a play consisting entirely of unreliable narrators?
Read MoreGreat ‘Henry V’: What’s Old Is New
Henry V loved France so much that he took it (and Catherine of Valois) for his own in 1415’s Battle of Agincourt. The story’s more complicated than all that, of course — and the debut of New Fortune Theatre is just the occasion on which to tell it, through a very good ‘Henry V.’
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