Location: Bethesda, MD
Time: February 4-March 3, 2009
Director: Derek Goldman
Set Designer: Clint Ramos and Robbie Hayes
Costume Designer: Kathleen Geldard
The Stones make equally expressive use of movement -- now simian, now dancelike. In notes to her script, Ruhl...compares the Stones to "nasty children." Goldman and costume designer Kathleen Geldard have taken this notion in an eye-catching direction, dressing the trio in candy-colored motley, with patterned stockings and punk-tinted hair, and a flouncy dress for the Loud Stone. The three resemble bratty dolls come to life.
Ruhl once postulated that "Eurydice" could be "a playground for designers," and that is certainly the case here. Set designer Clint Ramos provides a bleak interlacing of ladders and scaffolding that hints at the dizzying distance between life and the Stygian kingdom. An elevator, smack in the middle, supplies one of the production's many shiver-inducing coups de theatre. Colin K. Bills chips in with menacing shadows, eddying rivulets of brightness and other artful lighting touches.
By Celia Wren
Special to The Washington Post
Friday, February 13, 2009
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