Saturday, November 01, 2008
Open Stage opens its season with the wacky farce Irma Vep.
Pittsburgh City Paper - Pittsburgh: "A mad farce like Charles Ludlam's The Mystery of Irma Vep demands virtuoso acting and directing. The acclaimed 1984 play is itself a skillfully engineered spoof of vintage supernatural drawing-room mysteries, complete with ancient manor, limping footman, Egyptian curse and possible werewolf. Its mix of physical humor, broad caricature, gleefully atrocious puns and erudite wit requires clockwork precision. And that's before you factor in that the play's seven roles -- four male, three female -- must be played by just two actors, neither of whom is ever offstage for more than a couple of lines of dialogue at a time."
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I would really love to see this show. It's very well written and the history behind the show is very interesting. This show used to be done with 2 actors who would play all the parts in the play. I wonder how the casting was done for this. It would be interesting to see how the sound design is done as well.
We read this for sound, so while reading I always tried to picture it in my head. I failed at doing that, in fact I dont think it is possible to do this show with 2 people. I think the actors drop dead first
sad.
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