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Previews:
March 1, 2001
Opened:
March 29, 2001
Ended:
June 30, 2001
Country:
USA
State:
New York
City:
New York
Company/Producers:
Lincoln Center Theater
Theater Type:
Broadway
Theater:
Lyceum Theater
Genre:
Drama
Director:
Jack O'Brien
Review:
Although Tom Stoppard is arguably the most brilliant playwright writing today, The Invention of Love is more an intellectual exercise that a play, a polemic about translation of the classics, sprinkled with clever witty lines and conclusions. I loved the magical flowing set by Bob Crowley and the lighting by Brian MacDevitt. Robert Sean Leonard, Richard Easton and especially Daniel Davis are fine. However, director Jack O'Brien doesn't seem to think that professors can speak conversationally; they stay in professorial-declamatory mode. For me, an unruly student, it is basically a bore.
Cast:
Richard Easton, Robert Sean Leonard
Technical:
Set & Costumes: Bob Crowley; SM: Susie Cordon
Other Critics:
TOTALTHEATER David Lefkowitz -
Critic:
Richmond Shepard
Date Reviewed:
April 2001
