Listen in as director Michael Hardart, designers Sidney Fortner (costumes) and Michael LeBron (sets), along with actors Marc LeVasseur and Erin Beirnard of The Metropolitan Playhouse‘s production of Clyde Fitch’s The Climbers, discuss finding opportunity in constriction, pacing, showing & reflecting the mechanics usually reserved for the background, hearing from the servants, being in tune with your audience in an intimate space, achieving elegance by suggesting elegance, and why this play from 1901 fits in our “new gilded age.”
“…what it’s driven me to…is an appreciation of what I enjoy, what I love: when a play can continue moving forward, even in a set change…you make it something that’s part of the story…”
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The Metropolitan Playhouse presents
The Climbers
written by Clyde Fitch
directed by Michael Hardart
thru October 8, 2017
The Metropolitan Playhouse
220 E. 4th Street
Manhattan
tickets: $30 ($25 students/seniors), available via BrownPaperTickets
photos courtesy of Metropolitan Playhouse