Venus Observed
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Dec 7, 2000
Closed Dec 23, 2000
Opened Dec 7, 2000
Closed Dec 23, 2000
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Verse Theater Manhattan presents Christopher Fry's award-winning masterpiece Venus Observed on the 50th anniversary of its original production. An eclipse, embezzlement, arson, and a murdered apple grace this delightful modern version of a comedy by England's greatest living verse dramatist. James Milton directs.
TDF accepted. Students and seniors $9.
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The English writer Christopher Fry was the preeminent author of verse drama in the 20th century. But, excepting an ardent cult of followers, few people remember Fry these days, and the genre is barely recognized in the
modern theater. Verse Theater Manhattan aims to change that by presenting some of the best verse plays to New York audiences--something they have been doing for nearly four years now. The company's production of Fry's Venus Observed is its latest offering, playing this month at the Wings Theater on Christopher Street.
Venus Observed concerns the Duke of Altair, a charming, aging man who asks that his son Edgar choose for him a wife from three lovely candidates. But[...]