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Written by Elevator Repair Service
Directed by ERS
Synopsis:
Elevator Repair Service combines elements of slapstick comedy, hi-tech and lo-tech design, both literary and found text, found objects and discarded furniture, and the group's own highly developed style of choreography. Recently, the ensemble's focus has turned to literature with shows based on the work of Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Jack Kerouac. ERS's new work is based on William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, developed during several residencies at NYTW.
NEW YORK TIMES:
"What any audience that gives itself over to this talented team should sense, though, is the group’s sustained theatrical discipline and energy. This work is so precisely thought out that even the slightest stumble in delivery (and there were very few) stands out. For those familiar with “The Sound and the Fury,” Elevator Repair Service has provided a magical opportunity: the chance to rediscover some of the thrill that came with encountering and gradually embracing one of the great achievements of Western literature for the first time."
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NEW YORK POST:
"FIRST, an admission: I've never gotten all the way through William Faulkner's classic "The Sound and the Fury," with its difficult, stream-of-consciousness style. And after sitting through "The Sound and the Fury" (subtitled "April Seventh, 1928)," the Elevator Repair Service's adaptation of the novel's first section, which opened last night, I'm unlikely to try again. "
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THEATERMANIA:
"Ultimately, however, this is simply not enough to overcome the inertia that sets in as the cast's too faithful adherence to reading out Faulkner's novel drones on. "
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NEW YORK SUN:
"Put simply, there is more to see and hear and think and process and experience in this production than in any other show in town. It is not an easy story to hear or an easy way to hear it, but it is abundantly worth the effort. "
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TIME OUT NY:
"At the risk of falling into hyperbole, I must say that if you see Elevator Repair Service’s utterly original version of the book’s first chapter, you will learn to see theater, and might quit going. ERS’s production is that pure—a stunning act of choreographed literary transmutation that still retains a humble, goofy sense of humor in its deep reading of a dense modernist text. "
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