Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Shortly after he wrote the long poem "L'Ange Heurtebise" in 1925, Cocteau ...
Ontological Theater, 131 E. 10th St. Through July 28. (212) 533-4650. YESTERDAY’S scandalous plays can be a problem when staged today. Are they still outrageous, or are they merely quaint? Should we ...
From the off, as director Netia Jones (in her ENO debut) tells us, Glass and Cocteau have drawn us into a hall of endlessly reflecting mirrors, a game of shadows and doubles in which each story and ...
In Jean Cocteau’s 1949 film version of the Orpheus myth, the poet Orphée grieves his wife Eurydice, saying, “I would follow her to hell!” Heurtebise, death’s chauffeur, replies, “You needn’t go that ...
At one point in English National Opera’s staging of Philip Glass’s 1993 opera Orphée, a character says, “Don’t look to me for help. I don’t know much more than you.” I know the feeling: the opera’s ...
The poet Jean Cocteau is lost in space-time. He has been in the 18th century and is now turning up at different moments in professor Langevin's life. The professor has invented some bullets, which ...
From one angle, this looks like an open invitation (and an open goal) for this high-concept production. Jones ingeniously – if relentlessly – focuses on the mysterious art of film, which Cocteau ...
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