“Simberin”, really? but why?
It tends to be my reaction whenever you hear that Shakespeare's deceased play is overly packed. Certainly, do I have to have something on a non -slow stage?
Now, “Simberin” to prove that I am wrong. The production of a national Asian American theater using a clear modern poetry translation by Andrea Tome is frankly delighted. It is interesting, absorbed, and even influences. And because there is no man in the surprisingly strong cast, it has both the sense of play when satirizing a macho pride and the understanding of the threat of men.
Steven Brown Fried is the director of Greenwich Village's Rin F. Angelson Theater, and along with the drama trousy of John Diaz, this “Symbeline” specializes in creating a version of drama in Shakespeare in the United Kingdom. Introducing the play of Shakespeare. The freedom of the approach is a remarkable contrast with the slightly uptown “Becketto Brief” of the Irish repertoire theater. There, Samuel Beckett, another dead canonical playwright, holds customary tight control. The details are as follows.
Blow a bright and elegant touch into her translation. Her “Symbeline” feels like Shakespeare, but our 21st century ears adapt it faster. Of course, this conspiracy is still ridiculous, and the title character, the King of the UK (Amy Hill), secretly married her beloved Posfumus (KK Mogie) rather than her daughter Imogen (Jennifer Rim). I let you do it. Simberin wanted to marry his terrible new queen (Maria Christina Olivas).
Postums, who is exiled to believe that Imogen is dishonest, kills her, ordering his work, Juellana Soelistyo. The prestigious Pissanio secretly denies him. The adventure, including a small child 20 years ago and was raised as a Rustics by Bellalius (re -Olivella), including the Arbirags (Annie Fan) and the heroic Guider (Sarah Suzuki). 。
There is also a war with Romans. I refuse to worry about it, here.
However, the remaining performance is very interesting, despite the fact that Imogen is not thinking about the Poshumus attempt to kill the couple's contract breaker. She still regards him as a prize.
Interestingly, the religion of the forgiveness that penetrates into the end of the play, and the religion of simply learning their lessons and living a better life is for our political moment. It has a heavier meaning.
The running time, 2 hours and 40 minutes, paused in advance. I thought it was three hours in my life. But they don't drag -and may need a 3 -hour rest in a place where you actually need to clear your mobile phone.
It is worth the time, and that much asks for the 75 -minute Irish person in charge of “Becketto Brief.” This is a collection of three acts on mortality and memory, including Ciaráno'Reilly, including Krapp's Last Tape. F. Malay Abraham is a sparse stunning.
This program is built so that it will open as you are on the progress. First, build a “not i” stark, a minimalism of a sense of disorder. After that, three heads protruding from the same UR for the fast -paced comedy “play”. Finally, in the “KRApp's Last Tape”, the whole body walks around the room filled with the wreckage of life.
In the performance I saw, the hardship of the cast member transit means that the order of the drama was reconnected as the show started with the “KRApp's Last Tape”. And there was Abraham in the monochrome costume in the monochrome space, and his silver gray hair was fluffy like a clown. (The set design is from Charlie Kolcolan and is a costume by Orla Long.)
Beckett specifies almost all the movements of the play, but Abraham and Orey find the intermittent. Looking back on his life, hearing the voice recorded on his own tape for decades, KRAPP is close to the wild. But when he was once hugging the woman's body, he embraced a tape player from the old reel to the reel: his power.
Next, the salastye played “I”. This is a rapid trend in a sad, loved life by a woman who has “substantially losing words”. “Play” and “play” were planted in the UR along with the street, Roger Dominique Casey, and Kate Forbes, and re -hated the bitter triangle of love. A man is indigestion just by talking about it.
Even the lighting (designed by Michael Gott Reeves) is exactly what Beckett requires, and “a single mobile spot … turns around a different face from a certain face to another face.” And works wonderfully.
Unlike Shakespeare, whose play is very kind to variations, Beckett know exactly what he wants. You do it because he says so -and he's right.
Simberin
Until February 15, at the Manhattan Rin F. Angelson Theater. Naatco.org. Execution time: 2 hours and 40 minutes.
Becketto brief
Until March 9, at the Irish Leavary Theater in Manhattan. IRISHREP.ORG. Execution time: 1 hour and 15 minutes.
