Of Mice and Men Review – A warm awakening of Steinbeck’s classic Bowl Dust Bowl | Theater

BBefore having entered the hands of the readers, John Steinbeck’s novel of 1937 Of mice and men They entered the author’s jaws for the first time. The dog would have found less to make you teeth This silent theatrical adaptation.

A couple of itinerant friends finds work in a ranch in the south of the great depression era. George is brazenly confident and protective compared to the shy Lennie who has a mental disability stigmatized by workers. In the production of Sarah Brigham, Lennie is played by Wiliam Young, who has learning difficulties. There is a softness in his Lennie, which calls the name of George as a crew. His dangerously nervous and busy hands constantly touch their beard or arms, while the production uses puppets for animals that pets. His posture reflects their: to bend over like a lot of barley, bending over himself.

Liam King’s George has pragmatism and impatience in his despair to obtain a better life. A rustling field is projected every time you imagine this dream. In one scene, the legs swing on a bunk bed, as if they were only two guys who fantasized together. All the time, a golden glow peek through the panels behind them.

However, the scenes slide forward so constantly and incidentally that there is little impact as to register when the dream is lost. The flat static direction of Brigham is found characters on barrels or speakers for each scene. The action is set inside a pen similar to a stable, but there is no increasing or spiral voltage current.

The violence is polite and excessively choreographed to the fateful turning point with Curley’s wife, when it becomes coldly impulsive. That yellow glitter now burns orange like a furnace. And when the doors of the Ranch are open for the final scene, you can distinguish the strings: the golden background is a sheet. The bright and sunny dream is exposed as an illusion.