Now Playing ‘Darling Grenadine’
Edward T. Morris’s mostly hand-drawn animated backdrops are a perfect complement to Zaitchik’s fresh and soulful tunes.
‘Darling Grenadine’ Review
This is, mind you, a good-looking production, performed in the round on a spare set (by Tim Mackabee), where clever line-drawing projections (by Edward T. Morris) do much to change the scenery.
In ‘Public Servant,’ a Changed Daughter Returns From College
It’s a handsome production, though, on a clever picket-fence set by Edward T. Morris at Theater Row’s Theater Five (until very recently known as the Clurman). And like “The Cake,” “Public Servant” is civic-minded.
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That restraint is embodied in the show’s excellent design: warm lighting (by Aaron Copp) on a set (by Edward T. Morris) whose wooden-plank upstage wall is painted with a mottled map of the continental United States.
Review: ‘Lost Voices’ Confronts the Rising Tide of Climate Change
The most eloquent aspect of “Lost Voices” is Edward T. Morris’s poetic set. Its white plank floor is mottled with mold, and its landscape bears an ominously high tidemark. Water has surged through here, we see, and it will probably come again.
Review: Innocuous Remarks Double as Cutting Commentary in ‘Abigail’s Party’
Edward T. Morris’s set and Kristin Isola’s costumes evoke the tacky era without mocking it.
Review: ‘The Pirate La Dee Da,’ a Tale of a Runaway Princess
One funny bit depends on a child randomly selected from the audience; others involve shadow puppetry and a gargantuan sea monster (both cleverly designed by Edward T. Morris). And while some may object to La Dee Da’s suddenly falling in love, no one could call her choice expected.
Review: ‘The Pavilion,’ a Class Reunion Drama, at Barrow Group Theater
But Mr. Wright sprinkles a little magic on this elegantly worn wooden lakeside pavilion (the set is by Edward T. Morris), largely through his all-knowing Narrator, played with incantatory grace by Seth Barrish.
Review: ‘Stones in His Pockets’: Giving New Meaning to the Term ‘Character Actors’
The giant screen is the first hint. It is multiplex-size, slightly tilted, spanning most of the upstage wall at the Yale Repertory Theater, showing a rich blue Irish sky at first. Then there is the AstroTurf-like floor, rising to create a little hill, representing the greenness of the Emerald Isle. There are a couple of big klieg lights and a towering movie-set crane.
Edward T. Morris did the impressive scenic and projection design. Yale began offering projection design as a degree program only two and a half years ago, and sure enough, this “Stones in His Pockets” includes a hysterically funny video, positioned as the daily rushes that Charlie and Jake are watching. Mr. Morton appears in full Victorian drag as Caroline, playing her aristocratic film character Maeve; Mr. Arsenault plays her male co-star playing her peasant lover, Rory; numerous cows appear, the same ones criticized earlier by a production executive for being “not Irish enough”; and a horse proves amusingly bothersome.