With a more fully realized performance in the central role, it might be easier to overlook the lapses into melodrama, but, unfortunately, Ms. Erbe's performance leaves a void where the play's anxious, fluttering heart should be.
"Ariane" has never had a fully staged performance in New York.
The ballet begins as a rehearsal and ends in a fully staged performance.
City Opera is presenting the work in its first fully staged performance on Nov. 11.
Of the adults, Ms. Hecht comes closest to a fully integrated performance as the uncertain, dependent Blanche.
Mr. Whitaker gives a fully committed performance but is forced to spout a lot of airy semi-spiritual gunk.
Ms. Ireland, it must be said, gives a credible, fully integrated performance that never begs for affection.
Mr. Schimmel's writing is energetic, inviting and, most crucial for a piece of this kind, picturesque, and these musicians gave it the fully engaged performance it deserved.
It's the finest piece of conducting in the class all week, a fully realised performance that does justice to the piece.
Like several previous Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust award-winning shows, this sometimes feels like a piece that hasn't quite made the leap from brilliant idea to fully fledged performance.
