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Dan Conway's design of The Tempest reviewed in NY Times and Boston Globe

June 03, 2014 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

In its frolicsome use of traditional magic acts, this freewheeling “Tempest” awakens in the audience a similar sense of pleasurable, almost childlike wonder.   NY Times

 

In its frolicsome use of traditional magic acts, this freewheeling “Tempest” awakens in the audience a similar sense of pleasurable, almost childlike wonder.

     NY Times

Card tricks, appearances and disappearances, and a lovely, solemn levitation are all part of the show, along with a gorgeous three-story set, a two-headed Caliban, and songs from the catalog of Tom Waits.

      Boston Globe

 

“We thought it would be very interesting to put the audience in the same position of amazement that the other characters are (in),” Teller says.He also had an unexpected vision for the play’s setting, and the first call he and Posner made was to Conway. The associate professor of design at Maryland was their set designer on an acclaimed 2008 production of “Macbeth” at D.C.’s Folger Theatre.             

      Terp Magazine

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