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Late in Shakespeare’s Tempest, Prospero, having dazzled Ferdinand, his daughter’s suitor, with a phantasmal pageant in which goddesses bless the couple’s imminent nuptials, insists that the spectacle was transitory as life itself and, the lines strongly suggest, as is theater, which all-too quickly “melts into air, into thin air.”
But soft! All’s not lost. For [...]
Continue Reading →The third and by far the most ambitious of the three plays offered by The Yale Summer Cabaret Shakespeare Festival has now been added to the line-up. Directed by Artistic Director Devin Brain, the play is called Rose Mark’d Queen, a condensation (and we do mean condensed!) of five plays: Henry V, Henry VI (Part [...]
Continue Reading →A comic Tempest opens the Yale Summer Cabaret Shakespeare Festival
The Yale Summer Cabaret’s ambitious Shakespeare Festival, brain-child of Devin Brain and Tara Kayton, has launched. The first play in the series, which will run three plays in repertory with a dedicated company of ten actors through August 14, is The Tempest. A late play, [...]
Continue Reading →The Yale Cabaret 2010-11 Season ended in April, and today a cohort of talents graduated from the Yale School of Drama, where most Cab participants are students, so I’d like to take a moment to commend some highpoints of the Cab's recent season, citing the work of some who have taken their final bow there, [...]
Continue Reading →Oh build your ship of death, your little ark
and furnish it with food, with little cakes, and wine
for the dark flight down oblivion.--D. H. Lawrence, “The Ship of Death"
How do they do it? How does the Yale Cabaret take a story of utter desperation—the doomed expedition of the HMS Erebus [...]
Continue Reading →Director Devin Brain and the cast of the current Yale Summer Cabaret show, The Phoenix, have given themselves quite a task: to render a situation that could be either fantasy or reality, when either is potentially alienating. Based on a haunting story by best-selling Australian author Isobelle Carmody, the play has been derived by [...]
Continue Reading →The Yale Cabaret states its mission to be “a gauntlet thrown in the face of our future, a scar in the memory of our audience, a ballerina dancing with a stick of dynamite.” If this sounds a bit in your face, can that be a bad thing? Theater can’t cuddle its audience, that’s what TV [...]
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