Category: Performing Arts
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Review of Jeffrey Hatcher’s Scotland Road, at Footlight Players
These sorts of plays are for those who like Richard Foreman or David lynch. There are insightful, sublime and terrifying moments, but many that just make you go, “huh?” A cutesy-da-da weirdness thing that makes you wonder if you’re missing something, so you think-think-think like Winnie the Pooh until you come up with a million…
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A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking, Review
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Dido and Aeneas, Spoleto Festival Preview
“This ‘jewel’, as Director Chen Shi-Zheng calls it, is the first important English opera ever written, standing somewhere in time — in 1689 — between the operas of Monteverdi and Gluck.” From S.E. Barcus’ Charleston City Paper archives.
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Kurt Weill’s Die Bürgschaft, Spoleto Festival Preview
Spoleto presents Kurt Weill’s Die Burgschaft, preview. From the S.E. Barcus Charleston City Paper archives, 1999.
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Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, Piccolo Spoleto Festival Preview
Piccolo Spoleto presents Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, preview. From the S.E. Barcus Charleston City Paper archives, 1999.
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Laurie Anderson’s Songs and Stories from Moby Dick, Spoleto Festival Preview
Laurie Anderson’s Songs and Stories from Moby Dick, preview. From S.E. Barcus Charleston City Paper archives, 1999.
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The Good, Hard Work of “Hail, Caesar!”
The Coen Brothers’ new movie, Hail, Caesar!, shows you the man behind the curtain at a Hollywood studio. Set during the 1950’s, the story involves Josh Brolin’s “Everyman”, Eddie Mannix, which is also a fortuitous alliteration. The first shot of the film shows Eddie deep in remorse, alone in a Confessional. He has failed to…
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