Eat the Document, which premiered at the Prototype Festival last week, compresses a decades-long, nonlinear story into a swift 90 minutes while still finding time to pause for reflection.
With recent events in politics, it is becoming ever clearer that humankind hasn’t evolved much since the Enlightenment.
LoftOpera gives performances of exceptional musical and theatrical polish in offbeat corners of Brooklyn.
It could get loud. It often does, especially when the soprano is mere inches from your ears, pleading with the duke for the life of the poor boy (parentage unknown) who insulted her notorious dynasty.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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