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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