A l e x L i p p a r d
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This elegant and precise production by the Gotham Stage Company, staged by Alex Lippard, combines Western realistic and Japanese Noh theater techniques…
---New York Times …the inventive, flowing staging by Alex Lippard is a wonder to behold. ---The L Magazine Alex Lippard has staged the piece with graceful theatricality… ---American Theater Web Alex Lippard has directed the production with imagination and assuredness, switching back and forth between Western and Japanese theatrical conventions. ---TheaterMania.com Lippard's staging emphasizes the lighthearted spirit of adventure that drives the characters. ---CurtainUp.com Director Alex Lippard suggests Japanese theater (actors play instruments to underscore dialogue; entrances are made with slow, measured steps) without fetishizing it. ---Variety Alex Lippard imaginatively directs a physically astute production. ---Backstage |
Sake With The Haiku Geisha (2006)
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... director Alex Lippard['s] effort to give the play a sense of immediacy... is commendable.
---CurtainUp.com [the] production zips along, with each scene revealed behind a series of curtains yanked back by actors running offstage, despite no excisions being made to the three-hour script. The jaunty cast hastens the inexorable, grisly logic of the play as well. ---OffOffOnline.com |
'Tis Pity She's A Whore (2005)
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Brave, vulnerable, memorably hilarious…
---Time Out New York |
Frankie (2005)
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This production is not just powerful, it's thrilling… Director Alex Lippard uses alley staging (audience on two sides) to point up the debate, with Hecuba and her women on one end of the stage and Odysseus and his soldiers on the other. The spectator has to look from one to the other to follow the life-and-death argument, and can't help staring at the the faces of other audience members opposite. It's a brilliant bit of staging that underscores the all-too-public way in which the griefs of military captives unfold.
---TheaterScene.net Director Alex Lippard's precisely naturalistic quasi-contemporary staging serves the needs of the ensuing breast-beating and brutality. ---CurtainUp.com Director Alex Lippard keeps the show tight and focused ---OffOffOnline.com The sparse production gives Linklater plenty of room to display her considerable skills, and director Alex Lippard has wisely decided to keep the action solidly focused on her. ---NyTheatre.com In Alex Lippard's solid effort… Kristin Linklater delivers a technically impressive performance that… manages to be both moving and fearsome. ---The Village Voice |
Hecuba (2004)
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Happy End (2002)
Moonchild (2004)
Moonchild, directed by Alex Lippard, is a smart (and, given the Scientologists' legal department, brave) farce betraying a real affection for shallow, power-hungry flakes up to no good. ---New York Times |
Cupid and Psyche (2006)
Director Alex Lippard has done an admirable job… ---OffOffOnline.com Directed by Alex Lippard, the play is deftly staged… ---NyTheatre.com |
Hedda Gabler (2001)
This production is exceptional…directed with impeccable attention to detail by Alex Lippard. ---CurtainUp.com |
Tough Choices for the New Century (1999) (2001)
Alex Lippard's trenchant production of Jane Anderson's one-act black comedy…is hilarious, off the wall, and engrossing. ---Backstage |
