Hints and tips:
...Marie collects the trash carefully into a bag which she then uses as a pillow....
...Daniel Jeanneteau and Marie-Christine Soma’s production sets the action in a bare contemporary space, with sliding screens and scrims serving to divide the space where necessary....
...Marie-Nicole Lemieux does her best as the frantic Cassandre; Ekaterina Semenchuk, jumping in at short notice to take over the mammoth part of Didon, copes impressively....
...Shirley Haywood disappeared over a hill when her companion was ordered back to the starting point after losing her pack horse....
...The soldiers fall asleep with their heads on the metal mess tables, as does Marie’s boy. It looks slick, and it has its own internal logic....
...On the stage are young artists from the house opera studio; the two operas are staged by Martha Teresa Münder and Andreas Weirich respectively, with sets by Marie Pons and costumes by Gesine Völlm....
...With Véronique Gens powerful yet restrained as her reluctant successor, Madame Lidoine, and Sophie Koch as the pivotal Mère Marie, this is a house full of strong women with stories to tell....
...The cast is uniformly excellent, with Rachel Harnisch winning stormy applause for her spectacularly athletic coloratura lines in the triple role of Ursula/Marie/Ygraine....
...In this depersonalised version, Wozzeck himself is almost a blank canvas, the void upon which the cruelty of others is perpetrated; Marie is a neutral figure, a woman-child to whom things are done; the child...
...His commanding performance sets a standard equalled by the rest of the excellent cast, from Chloé Briot in the title role to Marie-Eve Munger’s impressive coloratura as the fairy godmother....
...Later, he will toss the razor with which he cut Marie’s throat into the tank. Later still, he will slash his wrists in the murky water....
...Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Marie Curie, all people who had what we would define as mental illness....
...Shirley Williams, the veteran Liberal Democrat politician, urged viewers to complain to broadcasters when they encountered an all-male discussion....
...This emphasis inevitably means a great deal of the noisy gyrating and whooping that have become McVicar tics, and which revival director Marie Lambert has done little to tone down....
...Even so, Bieito fails to make us sufficiently interested in Marie to care about her fate, and the whole egregious thing is strangely unmoving....
...In Lenz’s moral lesson, Marie’s fate is laid bare before us....
...Rosanne van Sandwijk was both Dido and the sorceress, Marie de Roy Belinda and one of the witches....
...Nadja Michael’s Marie is neurotic and damaged, John Daszak’s drum-major brutish, Graham Clark’s Captain precise and chilling....
...Officials expect the strongest resistance to come from Shirley Williams, the Lib Dem peer who said on Sunday she wanted the government to reinstate a clause making the health secretary personally legaly...
...Johan Engels’ clumsy sets and Marie-Jeanne Lecca’s spectacularly unflattering costumes must share the blame....
...Shirley Williams’ testimony in a sense sums the evening up, as she registers her astonishment at visiting the ladies’ in the House of Commons and finding a chintz settee and an ironing board....
...Raimund Bauer’s set is a bleak arrangement of white stairs, Marie-Jeanne Lecca’s costumes progress from buttoned-up black through whorish red to blood-soaked white, and Fabrice Kebour’s lighting is subtle...
...University president Shirley Tilghman said the school has achieved its goal of controlling the use of the funds at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs....
...Claudia Barainsky’s Marie is a less bawdy figure than usual, giving the part a fragile edge....
...The 1952 movie version of this material is revered for the frump performance of Shirley Booth, who had also played the character, Lola, at its stage premiere....
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