"What you see is a film that is screened as it is being shot. Everything is reduced in size, as if reduced by memory. At either end of the stage are miniature sets on long tables, with miniature creatures and people. Downstage center, a toy train runs on an oval track surrounding half-timbered houses and a church. The train has tiny cameras inside, so that when you look at the screen at the back of the stage, you feel you’re on board, rushing toward love, or away from it. Throughout the evening, your attention is torn between the making of the film, as the ensemble runs around wielding cameras and manipulating sets, and the film itself.
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| Many miniature landscapes were even smaller |
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Most of all, they touch.
The score ranges from Handel’s “Lascia ch’io pianga” to . . ."
Thank you, Jeffrey! For me, much of the enchantment came through the reversal in scale, with the fingers larger than the houses, trees, sofas they danced among.
I wish I could see it again.
The score ranges from Handel’s “Lascia ch’io pianga” to . . ."
Thank you, Jeffrey! For me, much of the enchantment came through the reversal in scale, with the fingers larger than the houses, trees, sofas they danced among.
I wish I could see it again.
