ROGUES AND SPIRITS
posted by James Reel
Oops—almost forgot to post links to my theater reviews in the current Tucson Weekly. First, a new company deserves plaudits for its ambition, even if the final product leaves a bit to be desiered:
Rogue Theatre's ambitious first production, The Balcony, announces a company of serious purpose, high artistic aspirations, courage and refreshingly perverse intellectual tastes. If this production falls just short of the ideal, it's first because of playwright Jean Genet's own lack of artistic self-control, and second because the company hesitates to indulge Genet fully in his worst excesses.You’ll find the full review here. Meanwhile, Live Theatre Workshop is up to its usual tricks with champagne fizz rendered into a play:
When Arizona Theatre Company produced Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit in 1997, even a psychic would have sensed a vast emptiness on the stage. Coward's little farce evaporated and floated away, the actors dwarfed by the set, the script seeming to be annoyingly insubstantial. Blithe Spirit works far, far better in the tight confines of Live Theatre Workshop, where it opened last weekend and still proves to be insubstantial, but now amusingly so.Read the rest here.
