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...The witches are a group of blind women; they are also little girls in spooky masks who dismember baby dolls; and they are a grandmother who serves a baby with broccoli at the end of the banquet scene....
...He winds up his figures like so many clockwork dolls and has them lurch, grimace and gape their way through the score....
...Paired with baby-doll dresses, peroxide blond hair and slashed red lipstick, Mary Janes became a tool of the post-feminist empowerment agenda....
...The technical crew could often be seen battling anxiously with the circus-like doll....
...The recurring motif of the dolls’ house invokes such masters of the weird story genre as Robert Aickman and MR James....
...My wife has decorated it to feel like a ski chalet; I’ve added a giant moose doll....
...Kriegenburg tells it as a hallucinogenic vision of a post-apocalyptic slum, a dolls’-house cross-section of a decaying bunker (sets: Harald Thor) peopled by copulating junkies and oddballs....
...Snouffer, as starlet-Barbie-doll Romilda, has everything you could want in a Handel diva, and Manley is all courage and competence as the ultimately triumphant Amastre....
...Kriegenburg’s staging falls back on a great deal of operatic cliché, worst of all with the feeble trick of hanging two life-sized dolls for the final murder-suicide (the women should drown, but we are still...
...“They angled their forks and cut impossibly tiny portions of food — doll-sized cubes of watermelon, a slender stalk of peashoot, a corner of a sandwich as if they needed to feed a crowd loaves-and-fishes...
...In the end, his nameless son will drown the organs of an anatomical doll in its now-crimson interior. Usually, Alban Berg’s Wozzeck is told as a story of economic oppression....
...Paul Barritt’s clever animations blend stop-motion, paper dolls, collage and magic in a visual aesthetic that recalls Eastern Bloc children’s films from the 1970s, but with naughty bits....
...Layers are added: a dolls’-house reconstruction of her remembered home; a film of the home; the boy in her memory, then the boy as an adult returning to the filmed home; the same characters on a film-set...
...Bettina Pommer’s sets place three grubby rubber Rhinemaiden sex dolls (later manipulated by the singers) in a pool of black water along with the ruins of an aristocratic ceiling....
...Mendelssohn’s programmes combine the nesting design of a matryoshka doll with the sophisticated architecture of a Bach passion; everything relates to everything else, with each concert containing at least...
...Both carry mementoes of damaged childhoods — Parsifal a model horse, Kundry a doll. The real magic of Good Friday is the healing of the inner child through love....
...Exhibiting a similar fascination with the dark glamour of 1960s pop, Le Pie conveys something deeply unsettling in her vocals, spanning punk vengefulness and Shirley Bassey grandeur....
...They are slotted around Mendelssohn’s unorthodox programmes, which contain themselves and each other like so many matruschka dolls....
...With her vast yellow skirts and Marge Simpson wig, Vitellia looks more like a toilet roll holder doll than a woman spurned....
...Instead, Herheim and his team present a Biedermeier doll’s house....
...The circus ring is later also home to the doll’s-house caravan in which the court jester houses his doomed daughter, Gilda....
...Julia Hansen’s ingenious set is a doll’s house in which two late-19th-century petit bourgeois families co-exist, one real, the other a figment of the children’s imagination....
...The set rises up between them, a dark doll’s house bisected by an air duct seen in cross-section (sets: Christof Hetzer)....
...Katie Mitchell’s production splits the stage into doll’s-house rooms on two levels (sets and costumes: Vicki Mortimer), augmenting the troupe of angels with silent supernumeraries....
...She is the only bright thing on the stage, in a Barbie-doll silver lamé party dress. She stares, zombie-like, into the audience, delivering her lines as monologues....
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