Life tenancies and relocations were offered to the 20th-century inhabitants of Williamsburg; now residences of employees and artisans mix with staged historical displays.
Oct 18. RUSSIAN ARK -- Alexander Sokurov's film covers 200 years of Russian history in a single 90-minute take, as his camera drifts through the Hermitage Museum in St . Petersburg moving in and out of elaborately staged historical tableaux.
Town Hall, Huddersfield, 16 November, hcmf.co.uk; Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 6 December, southbankcentre.co.uk Three of Donizetti's rarely staged historical operas, Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda and Roberto Devereux, give an English slant to Welsh National Opera's autumn tour.
The house looked like any other staged historical location.
A local tour guide has been staging "Hairspray" historical tours, while city salons have been offering deals on throwback 1960's hairdos.
"William the Showman" by Richmal Crompton William Brown is staging a historical waxworks show with the Outlaws and decides that the poor audience response is down to the lack of "famous ladies".
"To me," he said, "however you stage a historical opera, it has to look like the music".
BORIS GODUNOV Princeton University's Berlind Theatre will mount Pushkin's rarely staged 1825 historical drama, in a translation by Antony Wood, performed for the first time with choral and orchestral music composed for the play by Sergei Prokofiev in 1936.
We have been in a state of war, and now we are passing through a new stage of historical reconciliation where there is no place for hatred and detestation.
There is no obvious reason that those same ideas about history and inevitability and the greater wisdom of those who "get it" should not lead to something unpleasant today--even if, today, the certitudes about three stages and historical inevitability and all the rest can be found on the right and not the left.
