Persephone
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 30, 2007
Closed May 6, 2007
Opened Mar 30, 2007
Closed May 6, 2007
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Rising playwright Noah Haidle debuts the world premiere of his newest darkly comic play, Persephone, directed by Nicholas Martin. Persephone (the goddess of the underworld in Greek mythology) is the tale of an Italian Renaissance statue burdened by an unrequited love for her sculptor and her inability to turn a blind eye to five centuries of human misery.
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You'd be hard pressed to picture a play more unbalanced than Noah Haidle's Persephone, which is getting its world premiere at the Huntington Theater Company. While, there's nothing audiences like more than to veer between tears and laughter, in the show's modern-day second act, Haidle leaves humor far, far behind with unappealing results.
The show's central figure is a statue of Demeter, the goddess whose daughter, Persephone, is banished to Hades half the year (a story that the ancient Greeks fabricated to explain winter.) In the first act, set in 1507 Florence, Demeter (the wonderfully warm-voiced Melinda Lopez), though pretty much immobilized, participates rapturously in her own creatio[...]