Even though Honor was not produced by The Wooster Group, the production answered an age-old question for my fellow Wooster faithful:
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Substitution
The vast majority of subtitled productions project the translated text line by line onto screens around the stage/house.
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When the Battle’s Fought and Fought
The ending of Richard Nelson’s When the Hurlyburly’s Done is proof positive of how applying auteur theory can alter analysis of the auteur’s individual works.
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Size Up
The New York Times’ review of The Brothers Size bumps up against the porous border between objective journalism and subjective interpretation.
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Take a Dink
If an artist benefits from making art about an underrepresented group, should said artist try to use the rest of their career to benefit said group?
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Rock the Boat
The exact same play can land differently on either side of the pond.
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The Keep and the Fly
Why is the barkeep the sole character not to tell a ghost story in The Weir?
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Joy Over Oy
The stage — especially in a musical — is uniquely positioned to showcase the importance of Joy Mangano’s Miracle Mop.
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Janet and Bruce
Welcome to the second installment of Write All Nite’s “Pulling a [Name]” series.
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Angry John
Typecasting comes in two forms.
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