Royce Gallery – San Francisco
Macbeth 2016
“Designer Malcolm Rodgers impressive set presents rolls of brown wrapping paper with large black lettering from a 15thcentury treatise by Thomas Starkey.“
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Theatrius
Macbeth
Hamlet 2017
“Long silver shards of aluminum loom as the “castle battlements,” reflecting the characters in multiple mirrors around the tiny stage. The function of these mirrors unfolds as Hamlet confronts his father’s Ghost. Hamlet alone can see the Ghost straight on. Horatio and the guards see the apparition indirectly, through the mirrors. In other scenes, characters see their own souls in the mirrors. Kudos for the imaginative use of space and set, always an outstanding feature at Arabian Shakespeare.”
Theatrius
Malcolm Rodgers’ minimalist, mirror-laden set was evocative.
Shakespeare’s Tribe
Hamlet
“Jihad Jones and the Kalashnakov Babes” by Yussef El Guindi_2017
This show was particularly fun, as I was able to create movie posters for fake movies for the interior of the talent agency office. (The producer offered up the posters as a fundraiser at the end.)
Jihad Jones and the Kalashnakov Babes
