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In the News: ‘Liaisons’ tailored to dark times

Les Liaisons Dangereuses cast members Elizabeth Aspenlieder, Josh Aaron McCabe and director Tina Packer are featured in this article in Albany’s Times Union which ran today:

Shakespeare eventually brings out the bawdy in everybody, but this winter the troupe is going even further, tackling Christopher Hampton’s popular adaptation of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ 1782 classic, “Les Liaisons Dangereuses,” at the intimate Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre.

It’s a peppery play stuffed with filled-out corsets, sexual intrigue and just a little old-fashioned cruelty.

“It’s just right for the cold weather,” director Tina Packer says with a hearty laugh. “Just when you’ve had enough of mud and snow you think, let’s go see a bit of sex and color down at the Bernstein.”

Read the full article: Albany Times Union: ‘Liaisons’ tailored to dark times

“Serious Business”: Jonathan Croy on directing comedy

12thnightsco09kspra_802-sized In this article from the Albany Times-Union, Twelfth Night director speaks about his time at Shakespeare & Company and the challenges and delights of directing comedy.

“It’s an astonishing work. It sounds like such hyperbole but I honestly believe this is the greatest comedy ever written. It has the broadest comic vocabulary of any show that I’ve ever come across. There’s satire, there’s parody, there’s wit and there’s good old fashioned silliness.”

Read the complete article here. Click here to learn more and buy tickets to Twelfth Night.