adapted by John Steinbeck from his novel
 

Hangar Theatre, Ithaca, NY

photos by: Thomas Hoebbel
www.TH-photo.com

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"Joe Calarco has made a reputation for shaking up the familiar. His Shakespeare's R&J restaged Romeo and Juliet in an oppressive Catholic boys' school with an all-male cast. His revolutionary restaging of Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady at the Hangar last summer made the entire venture a play-within-a-play with a decidedly more aggressive Eliza and a hunkish Higgins. His reshapings are subtler and slighter this time out but are nonetheless critical. Calarco's direction emphasizes an individualizing humanity for each of the men, and in his treatment of Curley's wife, Calarco erases the ugly misogyny present in other interpretations and hinted at in the novel."
— Syracuse New Times

"Played down and dirty and, literally, on a dirt stage, this rendition of Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" is a powerful piece. Joe Calarco's direction and staging realistically create the world of the itinerant, Depression-era farm worker, while the portraits of the characters seem dead-on to those of the novel. The production is fraught with powerful ensemble work."
— Syracuse Post Standard

"The talents of director Joe Calarco are assured in this emotional production, tragic and uplifting in its humanity."
— Ithaca Journal

Shakespeare's R&J     Sarah, Plain & Tall    Boy    My Fair Lady    Elegies     in the absence of spring     Of Mice and Men     Side Show
The Last Five Years     A Midsummer Night's Dream     Nijinsky's Last Dance   The Summer of the Swans   Urinetown   The Mistress Cycle
Twice Charmed    Assassins    The Burnt Part Boys

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