Content: small room at the top of the stairs, when: opening tonight, the Langham Court Theatre will last until December.
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2142 when director Naomi Simpson first read the script for the small room at the top of the stairs, she threw the script across the room.
It's not because the play is not good.
"This is because I like the main character very much.
"I want to play with it," Simpson said with a smile . ".
The small room at the top of the stairs is a drama created by the famous French Carole frchette
This week, the Canadian playwright who won the governor's literature prize for his play "small talk.
The little room at the top of the stairs translated by John Murray is a retelling of the old Bluebeard fable.
In folklore, a rich man told his wife not to enter the locked room.
Naturally, she can't help but find herself greeted by the most terrible sight.
The contemporary version of Frchette is similar.
An older man told his young wife that she could manage his mansion as long as she avoided the room at the top of the stairs.
Simpson said a key challenge for directing the small room at the top of the stairs is to encourage actors to embrace naturalism in their performances while maintaining loyalty to the stylized tone of the show.
The drama has a surreal dream.
It's like quality, she added.
"I thought of my own dream, where I kept climbing the stairs forever, only to find myself in the basement.
"That's how I watched the play," Simpson said . ".
Regulars at the Langham Court Theatre, Actors Wendy magaihai, Julie Forrest, Michelle Morris, Justin Carter and Leanne Allen also joined.
Simpson is no stranger to the director.
Her recent work includes the Inconnu theater in the next room (
Or vibrator play).
However, what she knows best in Victoria is a bunch of lies from an actor, Uncle Wan Ya and True West at the Blue Bridge play theater, as well as the beauty queen and the Langham court in Lennan
Simpson said the set of a small room at the top of the stairs designed by Assistant Director Julian sevello would surprise the audience.
She asked her friend Eric bedd, magician (
Cool Magic guy stage name)
As a consultant for production.
"There are a lot of gadgets in the whole play," Simpson said . ".
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