Judith Barnes

5 pieces since 2010 — in 2 roles, at 2 companies, most often at Vertical Player Repertory.

5 pieces
2 roles
2 companies
17 years

Role Juno

Sexual perversity in Gowanus

It is a thousand pities Francesco Cavalli never saw Some Like It Hot. A tale of convoluted romances, cross-dressing, immoral moralizing and a divine diva would have been right up his alley, or rather, Venetian canal. As staged by Vertical Players Repertory in a back alley around the corner from the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn’s […]

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Role Phaedra

Playing at gods

“Playthings of the Gods: Essential Myths,” the Vertical Player Repertory’s evening of Monteverdi, Britten and Milhaud, heard October 8, was a satisfying treat. The soloists were excellent, although the venue, Christ Church Cobble Hill, had overwhelmingly boomy acoustics and robbed the audience of any nuance in the voices. 

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