The lesson by eugene ionesco2/15/2023 ![]() In fact, Icarus Theatre Collective uses this intimate setting to its advantage in many areas. This made the play all the more powerful for me as these larger-than-life characters, in this illogical scenario, are living and breathing right at your feet (I was even kicked by The Professor in a scene of heightened action!). The action is literally happening right in front of you the reality/fantasy barrier is very narrow here. The tiny, square, bench-seated, three-tiered theatre doesn’t allow the audience much of that sublime seclusion many theatres offer (especially if one is sitting front-row, as I was). The experience is further intensified by the physical limitations of the Old Red Lion Theatre. Comedy, tragedy, fear, mystery, sex, violence, disturbance: The Lesson has them all. The experience of watching this absurdist drama, directed here by Max Lewendel, is somewhat like that of watching actors play out caricatures in a melodrama our emotions are constantly being toyed with as we are thrust from one extreme to the next. ![]()
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