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#25David Leveaux? NO GO. An Arcadia Review.
Posted: 3/18/11 at 9:36am

There is nothing Brechtian at all about this production. It is staged exactly as written.

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#26David Leveaux? NO GO. An Arcadia Review.
Posted: 3/18/11 at 1:51pm

Is anyone having any trouble hearing the actors? I've been told by friends who've seen it that they aren't as audible as they should be.

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#27David Leveaux? NO GO. An Arcadia Review.
Posted: 3/18/11 at 1:57pm


Ben Brantley had trouble.

With hearing the actors, that is.

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#28David Leveaux? NO GO. An Arcadia Review.
Posted: 3/18/11 at 2:14pm

I had trouble early on. I felt like I had to really activate my head to make sure I didn't miss anything.

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#29David Leveaux? NO GO. An Arcadia Review.
Posted: 3/18/11 at 2:16pm

As I said in my comments, I had no trouble hearing any of the actors from the tenth row of the orchestra. Some delivery, however, was unintelligible.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

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#30David Leveaux? NO GO. An Arcadia Review.
Posted: 3/18/11 at 3:18pm

Of course, the NY critics gave it their knee-jerk Stoppard rave.


Can we please, please, PLEASE get some new critics?

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#31David Leveaux? NO GO. An Arcadia Review.
Posted: 3/18/11 at 3:22pm

Borstal, exactly. Stoppard will never lack toilet paper as long as Ben Brantley has a face.

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#32David Leveaux? NO GO. An Arcadia Review.
Posted: 3/18/11 at 3:36pm

Taryn - that was somewhat my reaction, too. It reminds me of Shakespeare where, for the first two or three minutes, you feel like you are listening to a foreign language. Once the brain catches up, it becomes easier.

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#33David Leveaux? NO GO. An Arcadia Review.
Posted: 3/18/11 at 4:44pm

Of course, the NY critics gave it their knee-jerk Stoppard rave.

The reviews are hardly across-the-board raves. Have you seen the production yet? I'd say Brantley's notice--with the exceptions of Powley and Riley, whom I didn't like--is fairly spot-on.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

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#34David Leveaux? NO GO. An Arcadia Review.
Posted: 3/18/11 at 5:04pm



I think what Borstal is saying is that all the NY reviewers qualify their mixed reviews of the production by still including raves for Stoppard... though I do find it a funny complaint, as Stoppard is nearly universally considered one of our greatest living playwrights in critical circles, and the NY theater illuminati is certainly not alone in that.

If you don't like Stoppard, that's cool. I have a lot of minority opinions, too. But I don't go around bitching and taking to task the majority as if they were somehow being dishonest or doing it to be cool or included.

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#35David Leveaux? NO GO. An Arcadia Review.
Posted: 3/18/11 at 9:26pm

So the first poster only tossed around the word Brechtian to sound smart?

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#36David Leveaux? NO GO. An Arcadia Review.
Posted: 3/19/11 at 3:52am

I can't believe anyone is giving positive reviews to Powley for such a shrill, unlikable performance.

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