Furgue at Atwater Village Theatre

Furgue

Atwater Village Theatre
3269 Casitas Ave Atwater Village

How can composers Piotr Tchaikovsky, Arnold Schoenberg and Carlo Gesualdo balance the chaos of their creativity with their need for love? Playwright Tommy Smith and director Chris Fields (the team behind last season's Firemen, named one of the "Best Stage Plays of 2014" by Los Angeles Times theater critic Charles McNulty) trace three real-life love triangles in a passionate tale of intrigue, jealousy and music.

Thru - Mar 22, 2015

Fridays: 8:00pm

Saturdays: 8:00pm

Sundays: 7:00pm

Price: $25

Show Type: Drama

Box Office: 323-644-1929

www.ensemblestudiotheatrela.org

Furgue Reviews

Average Rating based on 6 reviews

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Los Angeles Times - Recommended

"...The striking innovation here is in transposing the musical principles of fugue into narrative. Parallel elements of the three stories are underscored by impressively choreographed simultaneous delivery of words, phrases and, on occasion, orgasms."

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- Philip Brandes

LA Theatre Review - Recommended

"...It is the movement, the timing and the brilliant staging of sex, suicide and slaughter that make the production extraordinary. It's very much a directorial coup."

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- Deborah Klugman

Stage Scene LA - Recommended

"...A trio of classical music composers, each involved in a deadly love triangle, find their lives interwoven fugue-style-and quite stylishly indeed-in Fugue, Tommy Smith's mesmerizing meditation on music and madness (and musicians driven mad by love), the latest from Echo Theater Company and one of the most provocative evenings of theater you're likely to experience for some time to come."

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- Steven Stanley

ArtsInLA - Somewhat Recommended

"...But Smith goes too far in trying to create a structural fugue: having the characters speak the same lines at the same time to evidence their common longings and struggles. Even if the actors could manage to get their rhythms and inflections perfectly synchronized, the effect is totally distancing. Thus this work emphasizes form. So while the characters experience heart-wrenching events, the audience remains almost constantly aware of the architecture imposed on the storytelling."

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- Dany Margolies

Total Theater - Recommended

"...Director Chris Fields manages to orchestrate this fiendishly difficult play with much finesse and skill, even though he has chosen to stage it on a near-bare stage. But his actors deliver superb performances and he has been aided immeasurably by Michael Mullen's lavish and evocative costumes."

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- Willard Manus

Showmag - Recommended

"...Fugue is an adult work which demands concentration while in the theater and may haunt you after the lights go up."

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- Michael Van Duzer

Furgue at Atwater Village Theatre

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Furgue Reviews

Los Angeles Times - Recommended

LA Theatre Review - Recommended

Stage Scene LA - Recommended

ArtsInLA - Somewhat Recommended

Total Theater - Recommended

Showmag - Recommended

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