Theater Review: Stage and screen icon VanessaRedgrave devised, directs and co-stars in the highly personal patchwork of family biography and dark warnings from history, 'Vienna 1934-Munich 1938'
TWITTERVanessa Redgrave devised, directs and co-stars in this highly personal patchwork of family biography and dark warnings from history.
Redgrave's core cast of characters is small but the background cameo list reads like the glitziest jazz-age cocktail party ever, from Sigmund Freud and Oskar Kokoschka to Stephen Spender, Christopher Isherwood, W.H. Auden and Thomas Mann. Alas, Hitler and Mussolini gatecrash the festivities midway through. And those guys are no fun.sometimes feels as ungainly and unpolished as its workmanlike title.
Redgrave opens the production alone onstage, laying out her intentions, filling in historical context and outlining her cast of characters. This low-voltage cold start feels ominously like a starchy lecture from an absent-minded professor.
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