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Thursday, November 07, 2024
‘The Horror Is Still Out There’—Quantum Revisits ‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari’
Entertainment Central Pittsburgh: One thing you must say about playwright Jay Ball’s adaptation of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari: Amid the spookiness and the grim foreboding of bad things waiting to happen, he has worked in a good bit of humor. Some of it is pretty darn tricky.
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Sarah Pearce
said...
I have not seen the cabinet of Dr. Callegari since senior year of high school when I was introduced to it in a film class. I had no idea that there was a stage production, but of course there is. But I still had no idea. It was being done at Quantum either! I’m very interested into how a silent black-and-white film has been adapted to stage, a colorful and audio experience. Clearly a lot of thought was put into this adaptation, and now I really do want to see it. The idea that this show has comedy is very fun to me, cause good comedy needs the balance of good horror. But it’s also extremely poignant to America’s current politics, something that the article touches on, being released the day after the election. With the message of the story being don’t sleepwalk under the spell of mad dictators. And yet, this production seems to have lined up well with current American ongoing. I hope I can see if this production is still running.
In the past two years I have been absolutely obsessed with the cabinet of dr caligari. I'm an absolute freak for expressionism, film, and of course the combination of the two. I plan to see this show, and I have high hopes. However I also have natural doubts because it is difficult to properly adapt a movie into a play. Especially in this case with the cabinet of dr caligari which is a black and white silent film famous for its large expressionistic sets . Usually it is the other way around where a play will be adapted into a movie. BUT I digress because I can't voice anything more than my doubts and my hopes until I see it myself. I'm excited to see the shadows and projections used in this play and how it will sit differently in color other than black and white.
2 comments:
I have not seen the cabinet of Dr. Callegari since senior year of high school when I was introduced to it in a film class. I had no idea that there was a stage production, but of course there is. But I still had no idea. It was being done at Quantum either! I’m very interested into how a silent black-and-white film has been adapted to stage, a colorful and audio experience. Clearly a lot of thought was put into this adaptation, and now I really do want to see it. The idea that this show has comedy is very fun to me, cause good comedy needs the balance of good horror. But it’s also extremely poignant to America’s current politics, something that the article touches on, being released the day after the election. With the message of the story being don’t sleepwalk under the spell of mad dictators. And yet, this production seems to have lined up well with current American ongoing. I hope I can see if this production is still running.
In the past two years I have been absolutely obsessed with the cabinet of dr caligari. I'm an absolute freak for expressionism, film, and of course the combination of the two. I plan to see this show, and I have high hopes. However I also have natural doubts because it is difficult to properly adapt a movie into a play. Especially in this case with the cabinet of dr caligari which is a black and white silent film famous for its large expressionistic sets . Usually it is the other way around where a play will be adapted into a movie. BUT I digress because I can't voice anything more than my doubts and my hopes until I see it myself. I'm excited to see the shadows and projections used in this play and how it will sit differently in color other than black and white.
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