Impressive theatricality in an imperfect production of Orwell’s allegory of the Russian Revolution and Stalin’s real-life dystopia.
View More ANIMAL FARM (Luna): From pig to (wo)man, and from (wo)man to pigTag: Gregory Scott Campbell
RASHOMON (Luna): Kurosawa on the stage
Luna’s adaptation of one of the finest films ever made doesn’t dare to change enough to be much more than a translation of Kurosawa’s movie.
View More RASHOMON (Luna): Kurosawa on the stageCLOSER (Luna): The sex is neither sensual nor dirty, it’s tactical
Campbell’s production allows us to see the raw humanity in these people—or, in many cases, the lack thereof.
View More CLOSER (Luna): The sex is neither sensual nor dirty, it’s tacticalQUILLS (Luna): Sadism never felt so good
This brilliantly twisted, fictionalized look at de Sade’s time in the asylum of Charenton, is now getting a delightfully dark treatment on the new Luna Theater stage.
View More QUILLS (Luna): Sadism never felt so goodBRAINPEOPLE (Luna): A Haunting Invitation to Dinner
Concluding its 2013-14 themed season “Once upon a Time,” Luna Theater Company’s 80-minute Philadelphia premiere of BRAINPEOPLE, told in real time, is mysterious, disturbing, and challenging; but then director Gregory Scott Campbell was never one to avoid a challenge
View More BRAINPEOPLE (Luna): A Haunting Invitation to DinnerA CLOCKWORK ORANGE (Luna): Commedia dell’arte meets post-modern morality play
Luna Theater Company’s interpretation of Anthony Burgess’s 1962 novel is a unique marriage of the British author’s futuristic stylizations with disturbing a cappella songs with the historic conventions of masking and stock movement inspired by Italian commedia dell’arte. It’s a perfect match to tell the cutting-edge morality tale of teen ultra-violence and reform.
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