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A Timeless Tale, Told With Some Modern Touches.
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New York Times . 3/24/2009, Vol. 158 Issue 54624, p3. 0p. - Publication Year :
- 2009
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Abstract
- ''Haggadah (or the Passover Show),'' Witness Relocation's new production at La MaMa E.T.C., stands as a noisy rebuke to that too-familiar creature: the interminable family Seder. A whirl of speedy activity, with projections, music, dancing and short skits, ''Haggadah,'' directed and choreographed by the troupe's leader, Dan Safer, is theater for the short-attention-span, when-do-we-eat? crowd. Conceived collaboratively -- the program calls the eight performers co-creators and co-choreographers -- the show is more a series of riffs than a retelling of the Passover story, in which Moses leads the Jews out of captivity in Egypt. There's a hit-or-miss quality to those riffs, which run from silly (Moses, encouraged to have a jelly bean, opens a can and a paper snake pops out) to sober (a Holocaust-like story about a hut full of dead bodies). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Subjects :
- *THEATER reviews
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03624331
- Volume :
- 158
- Issue :
- 54624
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- New York Times
- Publication Type :
- Review
- Accession number :
- 37046480