Comments on: Kharmful Charms of Daniil Kharms at Art/Works

By: News Room :: Art|Works

News Room :: Art|Works — Fri, 07 May 2010 06:00:39 +0000

[...] What’s on: 2010: The year of the Absurd, announced by ARTEL, began with two viaCorpora productions: the Grand Guignolers’ Absinthe, Opium & Magic: 1920s Shanghai and ARTEL’s The Kharmful Charms of Daniil Kharms [...]

By: Art|Works | LA Theatre Review

Art|Works | LA Theatre Review — Fri, 07 May 2010 05:51:56 +0000

By: K.

K. — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:40:31 +0000

Good point, Jeff. I think sometimes it is difficult to perceive light, or absence of light, as an artistic choice when so often we just want to SEE everything. I appreciate your interpretation, and thank you for commenting!

Indeed, ARTEL, you are one badass group of performers! Keep it coming, please!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:05:13 +0000

The creative use of lighting in this show served the piece very, very well.

Not only was there an occasional face left in near darkness (this never appeared to me present a problem) but in one or two selections, the entire stage was gorgeously draped in a deep black void, with only a barely perceptible ghost-like image of one performer’s face seeming to float unattached to any force of gravity . . . other than the tensions between existence and non-existence.

Thank you, ARTEL. FABULOUS!!

By: chrissy

chrissy — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:37:37 +0000

Bravo!! This show was AWESOME!!! and I went with vokda, not the “better vodka” equally amazing.