Cymbeline (Vol. 73) - Stephen Orgel (essay date summer 2001)
Stephen Orgel (essay date summer 2001)
SOURCE: Orgel, Stephen. “Shakespeare Performed: Cymbeline at Santa Cruz.” Shakespeare Quarterly 52, no. 2 (summer 2001): 277-85.
[In the following review of Danny Scheie's 2001 production of Cymbeline in Santa Cruz, California, Orgel praises the comic and innovative interpretation of Shakespeare's play and lauds the excellent performances; he also finds that the subversive directorial decisions remained true to the anarchic spirit of the drama.]
Danny Scheie made his professional directing debut with a brilliant, ingenious, and hilarious Comedy of Errors for Shakespeare Santa Cruz in 1988. As artistic director of the company from 1992 to 1996, he was responsible for a remarkable series of innovative productions, usually performed outdoors in a redwood grove on the campus of the University of California at Santa Cruz. His directing style is irreverent, but more playful than...
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