The confusion could have been monumental, but the skill of Elkhanah Pulitzer, who signs the stage direction, makes all these multiple references fit together well and constructs a theatrically coherent if entirely predictable narrative.
The confusion could have been monumental, but the skill of Elkhanah Pulitzer, who signs the stage direction, makes all these multiple references fit together well and constructs a theatrically coherent if entirely predictable narrative.
Pulitzer's staging, designed by Mimi Lien, with video interludes by Bill Morrison conjuring 1940s newsreels in the era of Italian fascism, was handsome and efficient.
Pulitzer's staging, designed by Mimi Lien, with video interludes by Bill Morrison conjuring 1940s newsreels in the era of Italian fascism, was handsome and efficient.
Elkhanah Pulitzer's staging is a temporal ellipsis....In the end it is a clear and coherent staging with the text, lively in its acting and cinematography in its development.
Elkhanah Pulitzer's staging is a temporal ellipsis....In the end it is a clear and coherent staging with the text, lively in its acting and cinematography in its development.
Director Elkhanah Pulitzer has forged quite an impressive career in opera and theater.
Director Elkhanah Pulitzer has forged quite an impressive career in opera and theater.
Elkhanah talks with the NewYork Phil about her work on "prisoner of the state"
Elkhanah talks with the NewYork Phil about her work on "prisoner of the state"
Mass gave Pulitzer an enormous new challenge: how to make this "kitchen sink" theater piece cohesive and contemporary--and, just logistically, how to fit that many bodies on the Walt Disney Concert Hall stage.
Mass gave Pulitzer an enormous new challenge: how to make this "kitchen sink" theater piece cohesive and contemporary--and, just logistically, how to fit that many bodies on the Walt Disney Concert Hall stage.
