Did you enjoy Neva? What are your thoughts on the relationship between theatre and history? We’d love to hear your feedback on this production and anything related to the topic by leaving a comment on this entry.
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The theater was freezing!
Someone kept opening the side door and going in and out – carrying programs – throughout the play.
We didn’t find it captivating or innovative.
We’ve seen seven plays in this year’s ArtsEmerson series: three of them truly outstanding, three very interesting, and one terrible play–Neva. Skilled acting and some well-written lines, but the constant undercutting and trivializing of thought and feeling left nothing to care about and negated any meaningful thinking about art vs. history. The tiny stage within a stage on which the action took place suggested just how much the pay reduced a potentially rich subject to almost nothing. Turning the light on the audience at the end was an annoying cliche.
A good play could have been written about these characters at this moment in history. Neva wasn’t it.