As in Mr. Sher's witty staging of Rossini's "Barbiere di Siviglia" at the Met, public and private spaces overlap in this production.
Opera Feroce's witty staging mixed pathos and bathos, using 28 solo and ensemble pieces by English, German and Italian composers to illustrate the myth of the mortal Psyche's romance with Cupid.
You, the Living (94 mins, 15) Directed by Roy Andersson; starring Jessika Lundberg, Elisabeth Helander, Bjorn Englund, Leif Larsson In 1951, the year of the Festival of Britain, one of the wittiest stage shows I've ever seen was put on at the Lyric Hammersmith as The Lyric Revue before transferring to the West End.
Sarah did what no one else in her generation has so far managed to do: she said the unsayable, in beautiful English and with witty, impossible stage directions.
In the witty musical staging by Mr. Price and the choreographer Josh Rhodes, the characters wheeled around the stage on couches that doubled as lecterns to converge and disperse in various formations depicting the social arrangements of the moment.
Ken Rus Schmoll's witty semi-staging, which incorporated animal props, kept the pace moving throughout the surreal and poignant narratives.
"This is what was good about Viktor & Rolf," said Ms. Lerfel, referring to the witty show staged by the Dutch designers that made commentary on the economic crisis by showing topiary tulle dresses with huge hunks of material sawed out.
The following evening's surprise sunshine palpably lifted both cast and audience for an exhilarating romp through Donizetti's La Fille du régiment, so infectiously enjoyable that swallows kept swooping through the auditorium as if for passing peeks at William Kerley's witty, tasteful staging, briskly conducted by Robert Dean.
Sherie's hungry ego should be sated by the production that surrounds her, with Christine Jones's eye-pleasing cosmic set (which summons both the inside of an atom and the sweep of the solar system) and witty musical staging by Michele Lynch.
