Your Guide to Tri-State Events Art, Movies, Theater, Dining, Music, Dance, Recreation June 5 - 11, 2014 Nicholas Gordon and Polo at Music Mountain; Photo by Marsden Epworth Movies: ‘Malefi cent’ Special effects and hodgepodge, page 9 The Theater Scene “The Other Place” at Barrington Stage, page 5 “Noises Off” at Rhinebeck’s Performing Arts Center, page 4 The Art Scene Mexico InPrint, page 3 A Faire The Robin Hood kind, page 8 Calendar, Auditions, crafts, dancing, theater, food, page 10 Nicholas Gordon looks back (and online) at many triumphs, crises, even a little espionage, and introduces Music Mountain’s 85th season of chamber music & in Falls Village, page 6 Supplement to THE LAKEVILLE JOURNAL, THE MILLERTON NEWS and THE WINSTED JOURNAL 2 COMPASS, Thursday, June 5, 2014 Swing Into Summer! CHA MBER MUSIC FESTIVAL t YALE SCHOOL OF MUSIC 6543231066/33.-,+6052*)5()+'&516/3 25)15%$,/+'43)'-&0,13&60#+% " Flipside Jazz Orchestra 8 7 ), )&%55"',5 /-#5-.#0&55R55&5"))&5) 5 /-# &&(5..&&5.)%&5-..55R55hf5 #."ŀ&-5)65), )&% 55R55/&51%-"155 R"! Enjoy an evening JUNE – AUGUST 2014 of dancing & listening! NORFOLKMUSIC.ORG t 860.542.3000 COMPASS, Thursday, June 5, 2014 3 The Art Scene: Debra Losada & Avery Danziger Mexico InPrint at the White Gallery hese prints at the White Gallery in Lakeville, Art, Probing and Witty CT, sing with vibrant color and energy, with an- “The Owner of the Dog,” Martin Vinaver Tger, humor, wit, sarcasm and irreverence. A young Mexican girl is covered in abstract blotches of purple, yellow, blue and green — almost as if she’d been erratically spray-painted. At fi rst look, the color is so captivating that the meaning is slow to penetrate: the colors of bruises in various stages of healing? She has a square choker around her neck, it seems like a piece of silver jewelry, but on it is embossed the sign of 1 peso. Her lips are parted and she stares out — in- nocence bought and sold, a commodity traffi cked like drugs. It is so compelling that it is hard to disengage. A colograph of deconstructed sneakers in black and yellow is amusingly like a dance gone awry, or a grid of colorfully expressive men’s underwear on a turquoise Please turn to page 10 Join Us! Saturday, June 7th, 1-7pm Live Music - Artists - Vintage Poster Show – Refreshments Arts & Entertainment In conjunction with Spring for Sound 4 COMPASS, Thursday, June 5, 2014 Theater: ‘Noises Off’ Theater: ‘The Other Place’ LEON GRAHAM MACEY LEVIN . But Hilarity On hen Michael sardines that appear and ing to make entrances; clothes, speedy entrances Frederick Fellowes, whose Frayn watched disappear in each of its Act III occurs late in the and exits and all sorts of nose bleeds at the slight- Whis farce, “The three acts. tour, again from the front, silly but crucial props: est mention of blood. Tom Two of Us,” from the The play is about a tour- when everything goes baskets, a bottle of whis- Bunker’s Garry Lejeune, wings in 1970, he thought ing company of second- wrong. key, unopened mail from Dotty’s much-younger it was much funnier than rate actors presenting an Financed by Dotty Otley the inland revenue, those lover, is a Beatle-maned from the front of the awful bedroom farce. In (Susan Gies), an already pesky sardines, even an innocent, and Amber theater. So 12 years later each of Frayn’s three acts, faded, older near-star, and ax. McCarthy, whose Brooke his “Noises Off,” bril- the first act of that play — directed by the blustering, But these are actors who Ashton (in reality an liantly made and bursting called “Nothing On” — is self-important, not-quite- not only know one an- Inland Revenue agent!) with every type of comedy performed in different London-material director other, but who know each spends most of the play in imaginable, swept theater phases of the tour. Act I Lloyd Dallas (a baritonal other’s history and quirks; her underwear, is delight- awards in London, then is the technical and dress Thom Webb), “Noth- they are involved in con- ful. Best by a whisker is more in New York. More rehearsal seen from the ing On” is chock-full of voluted romantic relation- Lou Trapani as Selsdon than 30 years later, in an front; Act II takes place every cliché in English ships, secret tax evasion, Mowbray, a whiskey-be- Up in One production mid-tour from behind the farce: double-entendres, rivalries that keep spin- sotted, over-the-hill actor, at Rhinebeck’s Center set with the actors, who smirks and winks, doors ning out of control. And who remembers neither for the Performing Arts, argue and rage, mostly in that won’t open or open Frayn, the prize-winning lines nor entrances, but it is still as fresh as the pantomime, while try- when they shouldn’t, lost author of serious dramas has the play’s last words. such as “Copenhagen” Eric Oloffson’s set — and “Democracy,” quickly front and back — and establishes each character Donna Letteri’s costumes and all the relationships are spot on. Scott Tunkel’s Arts Entertainment that we will see tangle lighting is just right. The & and untangle before us in props design by Barbara sparkling, machine gun- Melzer is superlative. quick language. At Rhinebeck, Direc- “Noises Off” plays at tor Diana di Grandi has The Center for Perform- a splendid cast. Besides ing Arts in Rhinebeck, NY, Gies and Webb, Kevin through June 15. For tickets Archambault, with his or information call 845- blond, Oxbridge good 876-3080 or go to www. looks, is a wonderful centerforperformingarts.org. Bash Bish Bicycle Proudly serving cyclists for 17 years SALES SERVICE RENTALS Next to Taconic State Park and The Harlem Valley Rail Trail Mon. - Sun. 9am - 5pm • Closed Tuesdays 247 Route 344, Copake Falls, NY www.bashbishbicycle.com 518-329-4962 COMPASS, Thursday, June 5, 2014 5 Theater: ‘The Other Place’ rel, and the woman who is now living in the other MACEY LEVIN place, displays a diverse range of attitudes. Adam Donshik performs his . But Hilarity On Losing Family, Work and a Place three roles well.The spare set by Brian Prather and harr White’s “The episodes are framed by a subtle at first but becomes Despite this single scene, the atmospheric lighting Other Place” at speech she is delivering more intense and disturb- his work is precise, skillful by Scott Pinkney serve to SBarrington Stage to a convention of other ing as she slowly slips and affecting. keep the focus on the plot is a play that operates on scientists regarding a pro- away from her husband, Helgenberger, an and Juliana’s deteriorating several levels, leaving tein-folding product she is Ian (Brent Langdon), and Emmy Award winner and condition. the audience pondering developing. Through the her grasp on sanity. The Golden Globe nominee, There are intention- the life and mind of its speech her attention is audience experiences the delivers a wrenching ally unanswered questions central character, Juliana focused on a girl wearing a jumble of her hallucina- performance. Her pro- throughout the play, and Smithton (Marg Helgen- yellow bikini in the audi- tions and realities and we gression from the driven, the very last moment is berger.) The work is a ence. Who is she? wonder about the truth. arrogant scientist to her revealing and touching. blend of medical mystery, The other place often The script is taut, descent into a personal You will take Juliana’s suspense story and family referred to throughout the though one of the more hell is a dynamic example story home with you. drama. Also, as a good play is a home on Cape important and emotion- of characterization and play should, it offers the Cod that Juliana’s great- ally-driven scenes falls actor’s control. Her per- “The Other Place” runs audience an opportunity grandfather built. It holds into melodrama. This, formance is complement- at Barrington Stage Com- for introspection and an both warm and tragic however, may have been ed by Langdon’s as her pany’s St. Germain Stage examination of their own memories for her. It is her the approach of director frightened and confused in Pittsfield, MA, through experiences. refuge. Though the house Christopher Innvar, one husband. Katya Campbell June 14. Juliana is a highly re- has been sold, when she of Barrington Stage’s stal- as Juliana’s therapist, Dr. For tickets and information: spected medical research needs comfort she returns wart actors and directors. Teller, the daughter, Lau- 413-236-8888. scientist whose life has there in her imagination. gone through profound In a flashback, she relives upheaval. Her teenage the evening when her daughter, Laurel, disap- daughter vanished. 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