Friday, July 24, 2009

Brooklyn Academy of Music 2001

Next Wave Festival
Harvey Lichtenstein Theatre
Brooklyn, New York
November-December, 2001

Director: Les Waters
Set Design: Annie Smart
Costume Design: James Schuette
Lighting Design: Robert Wierzel
Sound Design: Rob Milburn & Michael Bodeen

To show their involvement, the audience alternatively laughs, hisses, and gasps, at times in horror, and at others in delight. We are not mere spectators but participants. Les Waters directs an extraordinary cast whose talents go far beyond mere acting.
Dave Lohrey, CurtainUp
http://www.curtainup.com/biglove.html

Big Love's director should get the electric chair. [...] Ruining fine performers with lame shtick and cheeseball antics, he forces Mee's acrid battle of the sexes into a frilly corsage box. [...] There isn't a fresh moment within 100 yards of the theater, just the putrid stench of broad acting, bad timing, and dumb Italian accents....
James Hannham, The Village Voice
http://www.villagevoice.com/2001-12-04/theater/it-s-all-greek-to-mee/