http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/08/25/mariastuart/ Washington DC's Liveliest Theater Website Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:53:15 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/08/25/mariastuart/comment-page-1/#comment-5482 Rosalind Lacy MacLennan Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:36:47 +0000 http://dctheatrescene.com/?p=1938#comment-5482 I too agree. What I loved in Maria/Stuart is the way Grote laces the dialogue with snatches of Schiller's poetry—even the ode to joy in German. Imaginative? If you listen closely, the language is wild. Better yet, buy the script, reasonably priced in the lobby.This text is just so gorgeously rich and grotesquely funny. The Shapeshifter is a great character that, at first, I thought would upstage all others on stage. Not so. The Shapeshifter is sort of a dybbuk that inhabits just about every character in the play. Each actor gets a chance to go momentarily mad. I looked forward to those unpredictable acting moments. The acting makes this play work. I too agree. What I loved in Maria/Stuart is the way Grote laces the dialogue with snatches of Schiller’s poetry—even the ode to joy in German. Imaginative? If you listen closely, the language is wild. Better yet, buy the script, reasonably priced in the lobby.This text is just so gorgeously rich and grotesquely funny. The Shapeshifter is a great character that, at first, I thought would upstage all others on stage. Not so. The Shapeshifter is sort of a dybbuk that inhabits just about every character in the play. Each actor gets a chance to go momentarily mad. I looked forward to those unpredictable acting moments. The acting makes this play work.

]]> http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/08/25/mariastuart/comment-page-1/#comment-5419 Stephen Gregory Smith Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:01:17 +0000 http://dctheatrescene.com/?p=1938#comment-5419 I TOTALLY AGREE! Go and see this show it is AMAZING! I TOTALLY AGREE! Go and see this show it is AMAZING!

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