Tag: Charleston
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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
Archives 1998. S.E. Barcus is also on Facebook.
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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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Music of 1930’s Berlin, Spoleto Festival Preview

“Berlin at the end of the Great War was a city filled with brilliant, young, inflamed, and rebellious minds who wanted the destruction of an invalid past.” From S.E. Barcus Charleston City Paper archives.
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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.