Arts And Entertainment
Impact Theater Stages ‘’Tis Pity She’s a Whore’
By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Thursday May 08, 2008
In theater,” said that poet and visionary of drama, Antonin Artaud, in The Theater and Its Double, “there is a kind of strange sun, an unusually bright light by which the difficult, even the impossible, suddenly appears to be our natural medium. And [John] Ford’s ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore is lit by the brilliance of that strange sun.”
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Theatre de la Jeune’s ‘Figaro’ at Berkeley Rep
By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Thursday May 08, 2008
Amid the slapstick of aristocrats stashed in packing crates to cheat the guillotine, flashbacks of the genteel antediluvian life signaled by opera singers popping up out of nowhere to sing Mozart and close-ups of those singers’ and comedians’ faces projected on a big screen from a camera in the wings, a wry concept seems to be taking shape from Theatre de la Jeune Lune’s Figaro, onstage at Berkeley Rep’s Roda Theatre.
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Berkeley Opera Presents Ravel and Bartok’s One-Act Masterpieces
By Jaime Robles, Special to the Planet
Thursday May 08, 2008
This Friday Berkeley Opera opened the second opera of its 29th season, with two one-acts from the early 20th century, Béla Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle (A kékszakállú herceg vára) and Maurice Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges. Wildly different in tone and intent, the operas nonetheless provided a wonderful program that was evocative and satisfying.
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