Opus
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Opened Aug 7, 2007
Closed Sep 1, 2007
Opened Aug 7, 2007
Closed Sep 1, 2007
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Primary Stages opens its 23rd season of new works by American playwrights with the New York premiere of Opus, by Michael Hollinger. A world-renowned string quartet struggles to prepare for their highest-profile performance when the violist, and founder of the quartet, mysteriously disappears. When a young woman is hired as the replacement, her musical gifts inspire the musicians, and they decide on short notice to abandon their friendly Pachelbel Canon program and to replace it with Beethoven's difficult Opus 131. The rehearsal room becomes a pressure cooker as passions rise, personalities clash, and the musicians are forced to tackle the ephemeral nature of their life's work.
Opus was awarded the 2006 Barrymore Award for Outstanding New Play and Outstanding Direction of a Play by Terrence J. Nolan for its world premiere in Philadelphia. Mr. Nolen recreates this award-winning production.
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Right now, we can say that Michael Hollinger's play Opus, which has arrived at Primary Stages after having made its world premiere last year at Philadelphia's Arden Theatre, is not only the classiest and most sophisticated new production of the summer; it's unarguably theater at its finest.
A study in group dynamics, Opus explores the shifting nature of power within a tightly knit group of five musicians. At its simplest, the play is an elaborate and literal game of musical chairs as one of the five will always, inevitably, be shut out of the string quartet that serves as the basis of their relationship. More than that -- much more than that -- the string quartet is a living and breathing m[...]