Tennessee Williams: In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel
292 Theater
March 7-31, Wednesday-Saturday, 8:30 Pm
For those who are up to a fascinating venture into an emotionally dark treadmill fun/horror house, one created by Tennessee Williams in 1969, I highly recommend 292 Theater's production of In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel. For those who are merely up to fine theater, I once again recommend experiencing this example of Williams's later oeuvre, where themes of his earlier great plays are explored within the walls of a demure red-toned Tokyo hotel bar in the late '60s.
The set provides the physical mood: a white clad Bar-Man (Brandon Lim) slowly pulls back screens stage right and left accompanied by soft lounge music, and takes his place behind the bar. The emotional mood is set by the bar's single patron, a midlife woman with too much hair piled up and far too many bracelets,...
292 Theater
March 7-31, Wednesday-Saturday, 8:30 Pm
For those who are up to a fascinating venture into an emotionally dark treadmill fun/horror house, one created by Tennessee Williams in 1969, I highly recommend 292 Theater's production of In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel. For those who are merely up to fine theater, I once again recommend experiencing this example of Williams's later oeuvre, where themes of his earlier great plays are explored within the walls of a demure red-toned Tokyo hotel bar in the late '60s.
The set provides the physical mood: a white clad Bar-Man (Brandon Lim) slowly pulls back screens stage right and left accompanied by soft lounge music, and takes his place behind the bar. The emotional mood is set by the bar's single patron, a midlife woman with too much hair piled up and far too many bracelets,...
- 3/17/2012
- by Jay Reisberg
- www.culturecatch.com
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