Arts & Theater – Editors’ Best of 2002
Web MasterBest Edison Show: Theatre de la Jeune Lune’s Hamlet
I mean, honestly: who needs half the lines of Shakespeare’s most analyzed classic? We all know the jist. So what if they rearranged lines to make our young schemer a loony? It was a great show. The movement was beautiful. The idea was well executed. The actors were superb. They took an old tired over-produced antique and revitalized it.
Best PAD Show:
The three PAD performances this semester have been so different, I don’t know how to rank them. The season opened with the Dance Faculty’s Dance Close Up. It was awesome off-off-Broadway, right-up-in-your-face dancing. Then we moved on to Once In A Lifetime. The cast was enormous, the play itself was rather cheesy, but it was a very enjoyable time and the actors did a wonderful job with it. Finally, right before Thanksgiving, Shooting Magda sold out its five-show run. People were begging and bribing right and left to get in to see it, so it must have been great. And Joshua Sobol came in to see it and he was really cool.
Best Off Campus Show: Ah Wilderness at The Repertory Theater of St. Louis
Other more experienced theatergoers have questioned this choice, but I thought that this production was delightful. For a play in which nothing happens, I definitely walked away a happier individual. What more can we ask of theater than to walk away glad we made the effort of seeing the show.
Best Dance Performance: Pilobus at the Fox Theater
They were off the hook. What more can I say? If you missed it, you missed it.
Best Art Show: “Silver Clouds” at SLU’s Museum of Contemporary Religious Art
Andy Warhol’s interactive windblown silver balloon exhibit with peaceful classical music playing in the background might be the most perfect study break ever. And it is still going! You have just over a week to get your butts downtown and play with big balloons and consider yourself cultured by doing so.
Biggest Flop: Vo-Du Macbeth
Shakespeare turned over in his grave.
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