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To end the Ithaca College theater season with a show about nothing may seem like a random choice. But Shakespeare’s comedy “Much Ado About Nothing” is a fitting note to end the year on after the department’s array of edgy, contemporary pieces.
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Some theatergoers consider the “fourth wall” a necessary facet of contemporary theater. This invisible curtain between the audience and the actor creates an illusion that the former is looking into the world created onstage, but when the fourth wall is stripped down, conversations can go deeper than they ever would have before.
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Viewers didn’t know the second flight of stairs in Friends Hall would lead them to a theatrical world filled with blood, terror and torture Sunday. But then again, a play based on the brutal “Dirty War” in Argentina suggests nothing less.
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A few elderly people in the audience of the Kitchen Theatre’s production of “Speech & Debate” seemed not at all amused by the premise, outcome and action of the ballsy, controversial play.
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Moral integrity and childish exuberance are the underlying messages of Ithaca College’s production of the two-act opera “The Little Prince,” directed by David Lefkowich and based on the French novella of the same name by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
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Through a bold combination of lighting, sound effects, stellar acting and originality, the Ithaca College theater department has, yet again, produced a gripping adaptation of an influential piece of theater by excluding the mundane and welcoming the provocative.
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If Adam and Eve had the musical prowess and dancing capabilities of the actors who portray them in “Children of Eden” — Ithaca College’s second main stage show this season — then maybe God would have been more lenient with his judgment.
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