“My my, Someone fetch a priest”
TIM TEEMAN has posted a review for THE DAILY BEAST, headlined: “Inside David Bowie’s Weirdly Brilliant Off-Broadway Masterpiece”.
Here are some quotations from it…
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Not for David Bowie a Broadway spectacular, but Lazarus, an extension of a vintage Bowie role and filled with songs old and new, and some as familiar as Lazarus is strange. When rock gods land on the New York stage, they tend to do so loudly and on Broadway, as with Sting’s stirring opus, The Last Ship. But David Bowie: Well, obviously, he’s going to go for something smaller and cooler than the clotted, touristy streets around Times Square.
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The staging and lighting of these pieces are works of art themselves: Your eye becomes fixed on details like the little rocket painted on the see-through screen separating stage and band, a circle labeled Mars beside it, and the smeared handprints of the actors who have thrown themselves at the screen at different points.
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If David Bowie has set out to confound downtown theater-goers, he and his collaborators have made that confusion so visually rich it may not matter to you that the piece’s sense is far from conventional. By the end, my eyes were dancing.
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Go here for the full thing.
(Pictures by Jan Versweyveld)
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