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By going back in time, the Denver Center Theatre Company may have just entered the 21st century of storytelling.
“The House of the Spirits” is not a pretty story … prettily told.
This first major English-language staging of Isabel Allende’s best-selling novel employs cutting-edge multimedia innovations that range from the dizzying to the deeply disturbing.
We’ve seen words scroll along the floor before. We’ve seen live video feeds. We’ve not seen such a riveting intermingling of both technology and live performance in ways that so provocatively enhance the story taking place on a Denver Center stage.
By interspersing instances of torture and rape with moments of stirring theatricality, playwright Caridad Svich, working in uncommon unity with director Jose Zayas and a top creative team, makes what’s vivid on the page a starburst on the stage. Their efforts not only make the most harrowing aspects of Allende’s tale more palatable for us to watch, they help achieve a near-perfect balance of violence and visual poetry.
That all makes for a rare night of theater where you find yourself feeling something at nearly all times — be it horror, bliss, disgust, whatever. And it sticks.
We open with the torture of a young w
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DANCING ON HER KNEES. By Nilo Cruz. With Franca Barchiesi, Paul Calderon, Marianne Filali, Julio Monge, Luis Antonio Ramos and Henry Stram. Set by Riccardo Hernandez. Costumes by Toni-Leslie James. Directed by Graciela Daniele. At the Joseph Papp Public.
THE MOST INTERESTING THING ABOUT THE production of Nilo Cruz’ “Dancing on Her Knees” at the Public is the way the seats have been reconfigured.
Normally, there are aisles on either side of LuEsther Hall. For “Dancing,” the only aisle is in the middle meaning you have to cross directly in front of the stage to get out. As a result, anyone who can’t make it through Cruz’ 90-minute play is more conspicuous making an exit. The night I attended, two hardy souls braved the envious glares of those around them and left.
“Dancing on Her Knees” is set on All Soul’s Day, when, apparently, the dead can return to earth for 24 hours. This is a nice premise, but Cruz does very little with it. He brings back a pair of tango dancers, and all they can do is engage in the recriminations in which they must have spent much of their earthly journey.
The playwright also brings back a German immigrant who made a living repairing umbrellas. The best thing about this character is that di
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