Sing to Me Through Open Windows

Synopsis

On the first day of spring each year Andrew visits the isolated home of Ottoman Jud, a passé magician, and his helper, Loveless, who is dressed as a clown. When he gets there he is offered tea, conversation, magic and the opportunity to witness an impromptu circus act. A play about the hopes, fears and transitions we all go through.

Our Review:

Nancy Groves - 8 June 2009

Choosing the play with which to launch your professional directing career is a tough challenge, but one faced every year by those on the Orange Tree’s well-regarded trainee scheme. The latest duo, Andy Brunskill and David Siebert, could not have gone for more different options.

Sing to Me Through Open Windows, by little known American playwright, Arthur Kopit, and Peter Shaffer’s short, The Private Ear, were written within three years of each other at the turn of the 1960s, but while one is a heavily figurative tale of lost innocence, the other is a chatter-heavy chamber comedy with a bitter twist in the tail.

The Kopit comes first in its full British premiere, immediately plunging us into the dreamlike world of ageing magician Ottoman Jud, his clown-like assistant Loveless, and Andrew, a little boy who visits their house in the middle of the woods. In the programme notes, Brunskill says he was drawn to Kopit for the pla...

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