The Matchbox Magic Flute, Shakespeare Theatre Company
Mary Zimmerman loves to work with a magic box on stage. I've seen it in the glowing wooden box frame of her Argonautika at Shakespeare Theatre Company back in 2008, and it's easy to say that she made her name turning a box down to the ground with the pool of Metamorphoses . Her Candide at STC was set within a wooden box that filled the stage of the Harman. It's a delight, then, to see her tackle another box, with the richly hued proscenium designed by Todd Rosenthal that frames her sparkling gem of The Matchbox Magic Flute. Tina Muñoz Pandya, Lauren Molina, Monica West, Russell Mernagh, and Billy Rude in "The Matchbox Magic Flute." Photo by Liz Lauren. Zimmerman excels at staging big ideas with exacting clarity, distilling complexity and mammoth endeavors into a simple human action. Mozart's opera, Die Zauberflöte , takes a world of magic and fairy tale-like characters and spins them into a story that blends royal lovers and their highly-charged symbolic sta
