Friday, July 24, 2009

Dallas Theatre Center 2003

Arts District Theatre (DTC)
Dallas, Texas
February-March 2003


Director: Richard Hamburger
Set Design: Rem Koolhaus andOMA
Costume Design: Linda Cho
Lighting Design: Marcus Doshi
Sound Design: David Budries
Fight Direction: Colleen Kelly

Big Love offers dazzling spectacle, but it wears out its actors and its audience with relentless physicality and too many paragraphs of Mee's faux intellectual hooha. The characters, when they're not flailing about like moths in a jelly jar, speechify instead of speak, always at top volume.