Love is My Sin
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Opened Apr 1, 2010
Closed Apr 17, 2010
Opened Apr 1, 2010
Closed Apr 17, 2010
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Peter Brook chose twenty nine sonnets and arranged them exploring the themes: Devouring Time, Separation, Jealousy and Time Defeated. Mr. Brook writes, "Apart from his masterpieces, Shakespeare also wrote uncommonly beautiful sonnets. To choose between 154 sonnets, I needed to find a dramatic continuity and was guided by the hidden tensions that arise in a relationship between two people. Love is My Sin allows us to penetrate into Shakespeare's own, most secret life. It is his private diary, in which we find his intimate questions, his jealousy, his passions, his guilt, his despair. Above all, he searches to discover for himself the deep meaning of being attracted by a man or by a woman, even by the act of writing itself. This is neither a play nor a poetry recital. It catches the actors into true human relationships. Then, at the very end, they become speakers for Shakespeare himself who wrote prophetically that his verse is stronger than time and will last forever."
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RE:Love is my Sin
A very stimulating selection of Shakespeares sonnets which would give anyone who was not familiar with them an appetite to look further. Like all Shakespeare, it takes careful listening to get the inner meaning. The two actors reciting the sonnets on various subjects, from absence to jealousy, spoke clealy and in measured tones so that all the words were perfectly audible and intelligible. The musical segues were, I felt, a trifle tiresome and not that necessary to enhance the words but they did not detract from the overall enjoyable experience.
Go before it ends.
Reviewed by MACNBOB
on Saturday, Apr 17th, 2010
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It is a distinct pleasure to hear the words of Shakespeare roll off the tongue of the superlative Michael Pennington in Love Is My Sin, a program of Shakespearean sonnets, conceived and directed by Peter Brook and now being presented by Theatre for a New Audience at the Duke on 42nd Street. Unfortunately, the enterprise as a whole is only intermittently engaging.
Divided into four sections, the show features Pennington and actress Natasha Parry bringing to life over two dozen of Shakespeare's poems. Some will be immediately familiar to many theatergoers, while others may be more obscure.
Several are performed as brief soliloquies, and it is here where Pennington's interpretive skills sh[...]