![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Particularly noteworthy are Mel Domingo’s lighting, John Nobori’s sound and Joel Daavid’s scenic design, which meshes so perfectly with Brian White’s extraordinary video design that it’s sometimes difficult to tell where the physical set leaves off and the taped images begin. The amazing design elements set a new standard for sub-99-seat theater. Among the proficient cast, which includes Kerr Seth Lordygan, Don Allen, Miles Taber, Cari Turley and Matthew Ritchey, Silver shines as the doomed Mermaid who finds the path of love as agonizing as does any Hans Christian Andersen heroine. Cawelti, Miles Taber and the company keeps the narrative taut and comprehensible within its surreal context. Punch, who beats his wife, kills his baby and wrestles with the Devil himself, becomes an object of fascination and dread for the Boy, as real as any human in his bizarre and unsettling new surroundings.īased on a graphic novel by Neil Gaiman illustrated by Dave McKean, this adaptation by director Sean T. Still, some time-honored traditions linger, such as a Punch and Judy show run by a mysterious Professor ( Tom Ashworth). ![]() Marginalized by the new medium of television, the once-popular arcade is failing fast. ![]()
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