Friday, October 24, 2008
Ceausescu meets Dracula in the ART's 'Pageant' from Romania's dark past
The Boston Globe: "It's easy to understand what stirred the dramatic imagination of playwright Anne Washburn as she contemplated the history, both recent and ancient, of Romania. What's more difficult to grasp, at least on a first viewing, is where her imagination has taken her."
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The idea behind this play strikes me as a "so bad its good" kind of thing. I don't normally associate Dracula and the Communist party, but based on the articles description of this potential madness, it might seem like a good fit. I actually am almost drawn to the play just to see how the weave Dracula, the king of the night, into Communist Russian history. Once the hilarity of the idea wore off, I realized he could be fit in pretty well. The fact that the play seems to be about abuse of power just makes the fit seem even better to me. I almost would like to hear a retelling of history where Russia was led by Dracula for a while rather then Stalin at this point.
i did some research on this play for a history of drama project - it's interesting how wide-spread this relatively new play has become.
however, there hasn't been much review of the show itself - only a rehashing of the history upon which the show is based.
viewing the photographs in this article show an interesting dynamic - part of the show is obviously a pageant, whil;e the other part is a dimly lit, intense drama
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