Theater Review: - 'Boris Godunov' - Declan Donnellan’s Pushkin - Of Czars, Blood and Ambition - NYTimes.com, July 24, 2009By BEN BRANTLEY
Published: July 24, 2009
Shall we begin with fire or water? Declan Donnellan harnesses the elements to spectacular effect in the Chekhov International Theater Festival’s production of Alexander Pushkin’s “Boris Godunov,” a transcendent tale of all too earthly power. But don’t be misled into thinking that this remarkable work of theater shares anything with the wall-to-wall pyrotechnics of a stadium rock concert.
Mr. Donnellan uses flame and flood with the selective hand of an artist who understands that a single well-chosen detail sears itself into the imagination, while nonstop sound-and-light shows are merely numbing. So our introduction to fire in this latest offering from the Lincoln Center Festival 2009, which runs only through Sunday at the Park Avenue Armory, is of a man on a long black stage, squinting through the flames of tall liturgical candles to examine the pure face of a barefoot boy in a nightshirt, the ghost of a child he had killed.
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