Opus
Dorian, violist of the all-male Lazara String Quartet, disappeared six days before a command performance at the White House. Young Grace joins the group and, amid assurances of "four equal voices," wonders if the rumors about the group's legendary bickerings, some life-threatening, are true. Opus moves pretty much as expected: out of backstage chaos comes harmonic order. Although the script unfolds as if written in haste (including a coda that's a gratuitous lulu), the Old Globe's staging, by Kyle Donnelly, emphasizes the passion with which an art becomes crafted. Corey Brill and Katie Sigismund shine as Carl (the cello player whose bad news fuels the plot) and Grace. Sigismund's portrayal is so precise you'd swear she's based it on an exact model. In Lindsay Jones's sound design, the "performed" notes emerge, it would seem, from the instruments themselves. Sometimes the music drifts up and then out, as if, in the case of Beethoven's Opus 131, it's headed home to heaven.
Worth a try.
When
Ongoing until Sunday, April 26, 2009
Hours
| Sundays, 2pm & 7pm |
| Tuesdays, 7pm |
| Wednesdays, 7pm |
| Thursdays, 8pm |
| Fridays, 8pm |
| Saturdays, 2pm & 8pm |