{"id":301,"date":"2007-09-05T13:30:09","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T18:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/05\/33-variations-at-arena-stage\/"},"modified":"2010-06-25T00:07:30","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T05:07:30","slug":"33-variations-at-arena-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/33-variations-at-arena-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"33 Variations at Arena Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nKirsten and I went to see 33 Variations<\/em><\/a> Sunday night at the Arena Stage<\/a> in Washington, DC. The play, written and directed by Mois\u00c3\u00a9s Kaufman, is about a present-day musicologist (Katherine, played by Mary Beth Peil) who (despite her daughter’s objections) travels to Bonn for research on Beethoven’s 33 Variations on a waltz by Anton Diabelli. The daughter, Clara (played by Laura Odeh) begins an initially awkward relationship with her mother’s (male) nurse Mike (played by Greg Keller) and they both eventually follow her mother to Bonn.
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The staging of the play is great – for example while a librarian in Bonn is showing Katherine a manuscript of some of the variations, the stage behind the actors shows a projection of the manuscript, with the portion of the text highlighted. Musical accompaniment on stage is by Diane Walsh on piano – she times the music perfectly with the performers. The music is great (hey, it’s Beethoven!), and I picked up a CD by Diane Walsh while there. <\/p>\n

The play is at times poignant, as mother and daughter come to terms with the mother’s wasting disease – and at times hysterically funny, as when Clara and Mike go out on a first date.<\/p>\n

I really enjoyed this play (as did Kirsten) and highly recommend it. It runs through September 30, 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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