I’ve seen a couple of puppet performances recently. I’d probably not write about either by themselves, but there were a couple of thoughts about them that I wanted to remember, so I’m putting them down in this post.
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The descriptions of Ear Films in the promotional materials for it were kind of ambiguous: it sounded like story-telling more through the use of soundscapes than traditional narrative. It turns out that it’s really just an overproduced and audio drama with a mediocre, under-developed story where the audience is asked to wear a blindfold, which was really the only novel thing about the presentation.
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Directed by Michael Haverty and Bryan Mercer and using the Blitzstein translation of the script, the best thing about “The Threepenny Opera” at 7 Stages last night was the Brecht. There were some good performances, but the production suffered a bit from miscasting and Haverty’s penchant for gimmickry and novelty.
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