Cymbeline
Opening Night: January 16, 2011
Closing: January 30, 2011
Theater: New Victory Theater
As dizzyingly eventful a drama as Shakespeare ever conceived, Cymbeline tells of a beautiful princess separated from her beloved, the cruel step-mother who tries to foil her, a credulous husband duped by an adversary, an exiled nobleman who kidnaps a king’s sons and a Roman invasion of Britain. All that and more is neatly tucked into a lightning-paced, streamlined production in which six versatile actors play 14 roles.
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December 3, 2007
Just about everyone left living at the end of Shakespeare’s “Cymbeline” is onstage for the play’s crowded climax. And just about everyone has a surprise or two to disclose. The queen is not doing so well, the good doctor informs the king, but wait till you hear what she just told me! The Roman general’s page, a willowy young man, is revealed to be neither Italian nor a man. Those rustic, dirt-begrimed warriors? Royal blood runs in their veins. The presumed dead are really living, the presumed living declared dead.
READ THE REVIEWJanuary 18, 2011
Have Julie Taymor and the rest of the team for “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” taken a look at what’s happening right next door to their beleaguered extravaganza? At the tiny New Victory Theater — which sits baby cheek by giant’s jowl to the Foxwoods Theater (lair to the opulent Spider) — a plucky little (and I mean little) troupe is addressing and breezily overcoming many of the same problems that appear to be plaguing Ms. Taymor and company.
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