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Howard Brenton’s Christie in Love, now playing at The Yale Cabaret, seems to aim at being an examination of the social aspects of crime. John Reginald Halliday Christie was a soldier in both World Wars, suffered from being gassed in WWI, and served as a constable between the wars, who, in the post-WWII period, took [...]
Continue Reading →Gertrude Stein’s Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights began life as a libretto for an opera, never scored. It’s now a theater-piece that invites avant enthusiasts to try their hand at staging its signal interplays for voice and chorus. Robert Wilson did it, in 1992, and this week YSD directing student Lileana Blain-Cruz, with a dream [...]
Continue Reading →Play With Matches, the latest production by New Haven theater group A Broken Umbrella Theatre, recent winner of the CT Arts Award, fills the production’s very interesting space in a very inventive and appealing way. Installed in an old warehouse, the play is set in the house and on the grounds of the mansion of [...]
Continue Reading →At what point did you embrace adulthood? Have you embraced it? And, if you have, is that concession to time a kind of death? Isn’t the Freudian “reality principle” (wherein we recognize that time applies to each of us, on parallel but separate courses) really just a death trip?
Creation 2011, directed by Sarah Krasnow, [...]
Continue Reading →Last week The Yale Cabaret presented Manuela Infante’s Rey Planta, in English translation by YSD student Alexandra Ripp, directed by Cab Co-Artistic Director Michael Place, a North American debut.
We watched Robert Grant as The King, paralyzed, sitting in a display case that was also a theatrical stage, in gaudy robes, wearing a tall paper [...]
Continue Reading →Ingmar Bergman’s Persona is a film that plays like an experiment and an exploration. It’s the film where, arguably, Bergman discovered something about “film” that he didn’t already know. You watch it with a sense of almost occult mystery as you realize that there is more to film, to putting on celluloid images of enacted [...]
Continue Reading →“The mass of men,” wrote Thoreau, “lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.” This might well be the signpost hanging over Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters, a tale of the Pozorov sisters—Olga, Masha, and Irina—as they pine for a life of excitement in Moscow, their former home, while providing the only [...]
Continue Reading →Hundred Year Space Trip, now playing at the Yale Cabaret for two more shows tonight, 8 and 11 p.m., is an amusing little fantasia about space travel, sorta; more accurately it’s about being at home somewhere (anywhere) in the universe.
The show features—stage right—two “not astronauts,” Kate Attwell and Nina Segal, the originators of the [...]
Continue Reading →Two local theatrical pieces are presenting the final shows of their brief runs tonight: The New Haven Theatre Company’s production of Eric Bogosian’s Talk Radio, at Ultra Radio, across from the Shubert, on 242 College Street, at 8 p.m., and The Yale Cabaret’s Slaves, book and music by Sunder Ganglani, at 8 and 11 p.m, [...]
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Thursday night the Yale Cabaret will open its doors for its new season. Regulars will find, even before they get through the doors into the performance space, that the aura of the Cab has changed once again. The box office and waiting area now feels like a somewhat seedy, somewhat creepy hotel (it immediately [...]
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