It seems there are three simple rules to staging Shakespeare successfully. One: put the play in a modern setting, like, say, a dive bar in Anytown, country unknown. Second, inject as much action as possible into the working script, quickening the pace to modern tastes. Third, no matter how clunky or inappropriate it may sound, […]
Archives for September 14, 2011
The Habit of Art
To begin with, The Habit of Art is not a play about an imagined encounter between W.H. Auden and the composer Benjamin Britten, late in their lives. It is a play about a play about this fictional encounter. Imagine Stoppard’s The Invention of Love having a love child with Noises Off, and you begin to […]