During our weekly company meeting, one of our Co-Artistic Directors recapped his most recent visit to New York, which involved seeing a number of plays including 'Scenes From a Marriage'. The premise as he described it sounded utterly fascinating to me. It's the story of a married couple portrayed at three different points in their relationship--when things are going great, when things start unraveling, and the fallout.
What makes this so interesting is that each time period is played by a different set of actors simultaneously to each other in adjoining mini-stages. The audience will see all three pieces, but in different orders, and because they are performed next to each other, dialogue from each set will occasionally drift over to the others. And that's just in the first act.
In the second act, the separate stages are combined into a single set where all three couples perform on stage together, sometimes speaking at the same time as their counterparts. Again, this sounds amazing and I wish I was in New York to check it out.
Here's a link to a New York Time's review that goes more in-depth about the entire production: A Marriage in Trouble, in Triplicate.
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