The Illusion gets lost in meta-land
The way in which Pridamant (Michael Laskin ’12) cries out, “A light, please, I’m blind” in Tony Kushner’s “The Illusion” is disquieting and desperate. The production, directed by Oren Stevens ’11, excels in its emotive use of light and color, but, like Pridamant, sometimes feels as though it is groping in the dark. While there are moments when the show achieves the brilliance embedded in Kushner’s writing, it ultimately runs out of steam on that precarious divide between truly moving theater and idle entertainment.
The action of the play is precipitated when Pridamant ventures into...
