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Stephen Legawiec
 
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Writing about theatre that goes against the grain
And seeking to describe the indescribable

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Children as Artists: The School Play Project
Children as Artists: The School Play Project

“This was a story that they needed to tell.”

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Stephen LegawiecOctober 27, 2021 Comments
I did not see Brook's "Dream"
I did not see Brook's "Dream"

Its thumb print is on everything we see.

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Stephen LegawiecOctober 18, 2021Comment
Between Fiction and Reality: Squat Theatre
Between Fiction and Reality: Squat Theatre

“I cannot describe how extraordinarily surprising and jarring this moment was.”

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Stephen LegawiecOctober 10, 2021Comment
The Secret Art of the Performer
The Secret Art of the Performer

“I lived through about three miracles a day.”

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Stephen LegawiecOctober 4, 2021Comment
Gender Play: The Maids
Gender Play: The Maids

“I wanted to do a female character without doing a spoof.”

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Stephen LegawiecSeptember 27, 2021 Comment
How the game is played: Aquitania
How the game is played: Aquitania

“a play whose chief feature is ambiguity…”

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Stephen LegawiecJune 9, 2021Comment
Our Town (and Time Travel)
Our Town (and Time Travel)

“When the play does do that, it’s an arresting one-of-a-kind experience”

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Stephen LegawiecJune 1, 2021 Comment
A Theatre Fairy Tale: Tricks of the Trade
A Theatre Fairy Tale: Tricks of the Trade

Keith the director gives one of the greatest “the show must go on” speeches that I’ve ever heard.

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Stephen LegawiecMay 25, 2021 Comments
Death Imitates Art: Kantor's Funeral
Death Imitates Art: Kantor's Funeral

“It was like mirrors reflecting each other into infinity.”

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Stephen LegawiecMay 18, 2021 Comment
The Walking Out
The Walking Out
Stephen LegawiecMay 11, 2021Comment
How did she do that? The Akhmatova Project
How did she do that? The Akhmatova Project

the staging of this piece was breathtaking

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Stephen LegawiecMay 4, 2021 Comments
Prodigy of Silence: Paul J. Curtis
Prodigy of Silence: Paul J. Curtis

“falling out of a window and looking good on the way down…”

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Stephen LegawiecApril 27, 2021Comment
Dying is easy, Comedy is hard: The Doubtful Guests
Dying is easy, Comedy is hard: The Doubtful Guests

I saw the show in Los Angeles, and I could not believe that they were actually going to do what was advertised.

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Stephen LegawiecApril 20, 2021 Comments
Theatre During the Pandemic: Fafalo!
Theatre During the Pandemic: Fafalo!
Stephen LegawiecApril 13, 2021Comment
The Low-tech Solution: Dracula and Grusha
The Low-tech Solution: Dracula and Grusha

“I was flabbergasted (and rendered doltish) by the simplicity of the solution.”

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Stephen LegawiecApril 6, 2021Comment
My Winter's Tale: A Polish Theatre Road Trip
My Winter's Tale: A Polish Theatre Road Trip

“He disappeared into the snowfall - like the ghost that perhaps he had been all along.”

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Stephen LegawiecMarch 30, 2021 Comments
The Eternal Mystery: Richard Foreman's "Sledgehammer"
The Eternal Mystery: Richard Foreman's "Sledgehammer"

“Much of it is like a metaphysical Vaudeville show.”

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Stephen LegawiecMarch 23, 2021Comment
Playwright vs. Director: Endgame and Virginia Woolf
Playwright vs. Director: Endgame and Virginia Woolf

“Samuel Beckett didn’t like it.”

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Stephen LegawiecMarch 16, 2021 Comment
Theatre of Place - The Cure
Theatre of Place - The Cure

“and at the end we would open the doors to let them out. (That sounds ominous, as I write it…)”

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Stephen LegawiecMarch 9, 2021
Theatre of Transcendence: The Wildman
Theatre of Transcendence: The Wildman

Ralph’s particular alchemy created a vast well through which we fell, finding ourselves eight centuries in the past.

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