'Orpheus' plunges audience into state of pure bliss
Theater Review
Even before "Orpheus Descending" begins, you are won over. Director Benjamin Mosse paints his production on a fantastical canvas -- a cabinet of curiosities filled with gleaming silver pails, white vases, birdcages and baskets, and sad, slumped stuffed animals. Walking the line of abstraction and realism, scenic designer Lee Savage has dressed his stage in real trappings arranged so carefully, they seem to symbolize rather than duplicate a real dry goods store. This abstract reality fittingly contains some very typically Tennessee (Williams, that is) characters.
Sad, dreamy and...
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