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The Sound of a Voice
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened May 24, 2003
Closed Jun 28, 2003

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

In The Sound of a Voice, Philip Glass applies Asian and western instrumentation to stories by David Henry Hwang, in which the dreams and fantasies of a Japanese writer and an aging warrior are laid bare.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



Loeb Drama Center
64 Brattle St
Mid-Cambridge, MA 02138


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

The American Repertory Theatre wraps up its first season under new artistic director Robert Woodruff with The Sound of a Voice, a world premiere collaboration between Tony-winning playwright David Henry Hwang and minimalist composer Philip Glass that lives somewhere in between theater and opera and has the spare elegance of a Japanese Zen garden.

Glass calls it music theater -- an "opera for a theater company." Think of his Oscar-nominated soundtrack for The Hours with an Asian flavor. Directed by Woodruff, the show is made up of two short pieces -- "The Sound of a Voice" and "Hotel of Dreams" -- based on two short Hwang plays that Glass saw performed 20 years ago at The Public Theater. Thi[...]


Reviewed by Kathryn Walat on Jun 5, 2003

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