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A Spanish Play
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Average of 3 stars from 4 ratings.

CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 1, 2007
Closed Mar 4, 2007

Visit the A Spanish Play website:
http://www.classicstage.org/spanish.html

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Four-time Tony winner Zoe Caldwell (Master Class), leads an extraordinary cast, including Katherine Borowitz (Illuminata), Linda Emond (Homebody/Kabul), Denis O'Hare (Take Me Out), and Larry Pine (Stuff Happens).

What's Truth? What's Illusion? Yasmina Reza, the Tony Award-winning author of Art, follows in the venerable footsteps of Pirandello, taking us behind the scenes to a rehearsal of a play where the line between real life and the theatre begins to blur. This American premiere of A Spanish Play is staged by CSC veteran John Turturro (Waiting for Godot, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui).

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



Classic Stage Company
136 E 13th St
New York, NY 10003


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

Why playwrights and actors are fascinated by the process of putting on a play is understandable. It's in their best interest to be serious about their work. But why playwrights and actors think audience's are more than passably interested in the actor's process is a mystery.

Occasionally, an intriguing version of the all-too-familiar subject does come along, such as A Chorus Line; but more often there are pieces like
A Spanish Play, written by the actor and highly successful French playwright Yasmina Reza and here translated by the industrious David Ives. Unfortunately, this newest work by Reza, author of Art and Life x3, indisputably does not join the short list of works about making t[...]


Reviewed by David Finkle on Feb 2, 2007

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