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A Presence From Above; "Lorenzaccio" Through March 6 Shakespeare Theatre 202-547-1122
From:
The Washington Post
| Date:
February 4, 2005| Author:
Hetty Lipscomb
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A BISHOP LOOKS sideways at his companion, a bearded old man who
seems none too pleased. What are they thinking? The old man looks
down at us, the audience. Are we complicit in their plans? Or
perhaps the object of them?
Ming Cho Lee's set for the Shakespeare Theatre production of
Alfred de Musset's "Lorenzaccio" -- a tale of political intrigue and
spiritual redemption set in 16th-century Florence -- is dominated by
an abstraction of Carlo Crivelli's quattrocento painting "St. Jerome
a...
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