HOLOCAUST STORIES
ADDRESS UNKNOWN, THE JEWISH WIFE, MAGDA
The Duke on 42nd Street, 2003 & HERE, NYC, December 1997
ADDRESS UNKNOWN
"In each of Lansner’s works, she has successfully handled stories of difficult subject matter, keeping the emotional content, suspense, and pathos on a restrained but compelling level." Phyllis Goldman, BACKSTAGE, 2003.
"Lansner strived and achieved quite a lot with her approach to blending the mediums of text, sound, movement into one world. Depth and insight into characterization, weighted themes, innovative sound and direction, clever symbolism and props filled her evening – quite a formula". Catey Ott, Dance Insider, 2003.
"Ms. Lansner shrewdly combined speech and movement." Jack Anderson, The New York Times, 2003.
" Lansner has a gift for creating vivid dramatic landscapes out of an almost seamless merging of text and movement." Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times, 1997
THE JEWISH WIFE
"Desperate public and private histories build through layers of small but telling details. The piece says as much through movement as it does through text..,
...the woman, played with a searing luminosity by Dee Pelletier... The chill husband, played withimpressive sublety by Mark Gerow..." Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times, 1997
"Lansner strived and achieved quite a lot with her approach to blending the mediums of text, sound, movement into one world. Depth and insight into characterization, weighted themes, innovative sound and direction, clever symbolism and props filled her evening – quite a formula". Catey Ott, Dance Insider, 2003.
" Lansner has a gift for creating vivid dramatic landscapes out of an almost seamless merging of text and movement." Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times, 2003.
MAGDA
"As people sit still, the events of history tumble forward. All are caught in its monumental sweep-the good, the bad and the reluctant audience member too." Deirdre Kelly, The Globe and Mail, Toronto, Canada, September 1, 1999
"How eerie it was for me to hear my own (long ago ) words rising out of a moving, shifting, unpredictable newness...It is a stunning imagining you have made...extraordinary transformations..." Cynthia Ozick, author, December 19, 1997
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