Sneed’s jovial company of five imbues the tale with a wonderful spirit. And who needs an actual 6-ton elephant when a mound of luggage on wheels can be simply, wondrously transformed into the beast – bamboo fans serving nicely as Dumbo ears, a hanging lantern as its elongated trunk.Ĭlocks and miniaturized trinkets line the top of the stage, each representing a transportation mode such as a ship, sled, train and bicycle. The wonder starts with Andrea Bechert’s whimsical set, dominated by a world map that incrementally lights up like a holiday string to indicate distance traveled. With only a few props, we fully experience a typhoon, a thwarted jungle sacrifice, an assault on a frontier train. Theater at its best relies on the transformative power of the actor and the potency of the audience’s imagination. The wisdom of Mark Brown’s faithful adaptation and the sheer joy of director Philip Sneed’s fun (if a bit under-rehearsed) staging, is how the magnitude of this epic voyage is set against the sheer simplicity of its presentation.
Time is a leading character in Verne’s masterpiece, which leaps through the years and onto the stage with all its wonder and whimsy intact. Fogg is a creature of habit and routine, a decent but solitary man of mathematics whose lonely heart pumps with the calculation of a timepiece. That man is Phileas Fogg (an amiably straightforward Sam Sandoe). But “Around the World in Eighty Days,” a refreshing departure for the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, is as much about the man as his mission. That’s antithetical to the leisurely joy of travel itself. Other room categories are available subject to availability.Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menuīut there’s something quite at cross purposes in criss-crossing the globe by the fastest means possible, with every step timed to the minute.
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Winter kale, almond, cep mushroom, ricotta, truffle Haggis croquette, winter kale, pomme purée There will also be a book signing opportunity during the evening - cash sales only. Over the past decade Mark's epic documentaries have taken viewers to over 100 countries, into the Arctic, the high mountains and around the Commonwealth, also surviving capsize in the mid-Atlantic.Ģ100 - Talk by Mark Beaumont followed by questions and answers Mark Beaumont has cycled around the World twice, both times smashing the circumnavigation World Record and his recent race captured the imagination of a global audience by targeting the Jules Verne’s fiction of Around the World in 80 Days.
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