latimes.com: "Just like the classic children's novel, the stage adaptation of 'A Wrinkle in Time' begins with a crack of lightning and a boom of thunder -- the 'dark and stormy night' that has enraptured young readers for generations.
But on the Julianne Argyros Stage at South Coast Repertory, audiences can see the clouds roll toward them through the darkness, and practically feel the anxiety of Meg as she sits alone in her attic bedroom."
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This was one of my favorite books when i was a little kid, and i'm very excited to see it turned into a play. There's so much science fiction and fantastical visuals in the books, I'd love to see technically the decisions the artistic direction made. A wrinkle in time features such cool, other worldly places, centaurs, space, these weird fuzzy monster people...i really wonder how this theatre portrayed the worlds. Obviously everything is probably a little simplified from the book, but i'd love to see the new interpretations made. I'd love to see another article on this showing some more of the technical work for this play.
Also, what a nice surprise to see a good story being made into a play.
It's great that the South Coast Rep is adapting such great kids stories into plays. Taking A Wrinkle in Time and making it into a play was probably a lot of fun to do. A Wrinkle in Time is such an interesting story, and as mrstein pointed out, it takes place in many other worldly locations, giving designers a change to really create something special. Its funny to see the reason they are doing this is money, knowing that parents will pay for their children to see theatre. Though on the bright side they have chosen some good children books to produce.
I would lovvve to see 'Wrinkle in Time' as a play, there's something so incredibly haunting, magical yet sweet about the whole story that could seemingly translate to theater so well. I especially love the fact that it was written as a children's book although the story tells so much beyond its time. Of course, to literally depict everything in the story would be impossible for theaters in terms of limited special effects (i.e. centaurs, and traveling to different worlds) but I think its cool that the artistic director wanted a production that let the audience's imagination guide them and I completely agree with his vision that it should not have been updated to the 20th century because the story would lose so much by being updated with/infected by technology and cell phones since it represents a really different type of pure and resilient childhood different from what we are accustomed to today.
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