Thursday, November 21, 2024
DruidShaekespeare's Richard III is a bruising experience, which is as it should be. The Irish troupe's contribution to the tenth anniversary season of Lincoln Center's White Light Festival (playing thru November 23rd at John Jay College's Gerald W. Lynch Theatre), absolutely fulfills the festival's mission of looking and listening without distraction for greater understanding. Shakespeare never hides Richard's ambition and watching it played out in the ugliness The War of the Roses created makes it inevitable. Director Garry Hynes has the perfect Richard in Aaron Monaghan. No one would ever mistake him for a weakling, but when things don't go his way his voice becomes high pitched like a
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Lincoln Center’s white light festival on Film: Dreyer’s ‘Ordet’
Now in its ninth year, Lincoln Center's white light festival explores ways of better understanding one's self and others. While there are no easy answers, generous programming in and around the complex provide artistic responses to seeking inner peace and fellowship. Here at Stagebiz we are excited about, well, the stage, let's make an exceptional exception. white light's first week included one of cinema's greatest seekers: Carl-Theodor Dreyer (1889-1968). His disquieting Ordet (The Word, 1955), screened on October 18 at the Walter Reade Theater, illustrates the interchanging properties of "light" and "dark." The Danish director made only four feature films. Three are