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American Theatre, September, 2002 by Hart, Sarah
THERE'S A LOT TO BE said for the venerable practice of ambulatory theatre, in which the audience travels from scene to scene, a la medieval drama. But theatre artists of today--consummate control-freaks, despite their Dionysian heritage--cannot resist the urge to clean up past motifs with digital-age tricks.
(At Cal Arts's recent site-specific King Lear, for example, the bleachers rotated to propel the audience from space to space.) California Shakespeare Festival's The Winter's Tale, running Sept. 11-Oct. 8, certainly has contemporary twists of its own-but in staging a rave ...
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