The Nutcracker: a spectacular show, do it again!
Brewhouse Theatre & Arts Centre的点评
点评:When Sasha Wilson and Callum Patrick Hughes collaborate on a feminist/matrilineal, folk adaptation of the Nutcracker, you just go. Both coming off of 5-star reviews at Edinburgh, they bring their unique practices together to focus on the musicality and through line of Clara; who gets to write her own story.
Sasha brings her specialty of actor-musicianship and feminist adaptation that is as ever supported with strong talent and rich directing choices in fluid folk inspired stage choreography and dramatic lighting design. Callum is pure genius in the blending and bending of Tchaikovsky’s score for symphony and Celtic folk music. He makes it sound as though this music was meant for the mandolin, the flute, the piano.
All this comes together as a craft to make the story and sound accessible and relatable at levels the original- dare I say- did not. It’s genius. Do it again!
翻译:当萨莎·威尔逊和卡勒姆·帕特里克·休斯联手打造一部融合女性主义、母系传承和民间元素的《胡桃夹子》改编版时,你一定会为之倾倒。两人都曾在爱丁堡艺术节上获得五星好评,如今他们将各自独特的创作手法融合在一起,着重展现克拉拉的音乐性和贯穿始终的血脉传承;克拉拉的故事由她自己书写。
萨莎将她作为演员兼音乐家的专长和女性主义改编的理念融入其中,并一如既往地展现出强大的才华和丰富的导演手法,流畅的民间风格舞台编舞和极具戏剧性的灯光设计都为之增色不少。卡勒姆则展现出非凡的才华,他巧妙地将柴可夫斯基的交响乐和凯尔特民歌融合在一起,创造出一种仿佛专为曼陀林、长笛和钢琴而作的奇妙感觉。
所有这些元素完美融合,使故事和音乐更加平易近人,更贴近人心,这是原版——恕我直言——所无法企及的。这真是天才之作!期待他们再次带来这样的作品!