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Grendel

About 1 pages (360 words)

The Village Voice, July 19th, 2006

Grendel

By Julie Taymorand J.D. McClatchy

Music by Elliot Goldenthal

New York State Theater

(closed)

Monster Mash

Like its set, Grendel's big and rocky, with an empty core

George Tsypin's set for Grendel is a giant, jagged rock wall, the central chunk of which lowers like a Murphy bed to make an upper stage, and making a large gaping hole in the middle of the wall. Tsypin may have hit unconsciously on the new opera's basic problem: Musically, dramatically, and theatrically, it has no center. The libretto provides a marathon central role-appropriately monstrous in its musical demands-for...

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