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33 Variations
33 Variations

33 Variations
Park Square Theatre
Thru - Nov 2, 2014

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Star Tribune- Somewhat Recommended

"...For all the scope and ambition of Kaufman’s play and Rocco’s production — including a lovely tableau at the show’s conclusion — we wish to be moved. However, not all the notes are there for that to happen."
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Graydon Royce



Twin Cities Daily Planet- Highly Recommended

"...There are few times when a play production achieves true theatricalism. But Park Square Theatre’s production of 33 Variations accomplishes this elusive target in its crescendo scene during the half-way point of the show. This scene, alone, renders this production worthy of both your attention and attendance."
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Bev Wolfe



Twin Cities Pioneer Press- Recommended

"...Park Square's production makes the play a compelling one. With pianist Irina Elkina upstage from the action, offering strong interpretations of the variations, we're gradually drawn into the conflict of what starts out as a query into artistic obsession and becomes a moving end-of-life story. Arguments and conversations in modern Bonn, New York and 19th-century Vienna overlap and dovetail as the commonality of the conflicts become increasingly clear."
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Rob Hubbard



How Was The Show- Recommended

"...Moisés Kaufman‘s 33 Variations (at Park Square Theatre through Nov 2) is a pool-of-light play. Played on a jumble of interlocking platforms, the play’s action takes place in apartments, offices, hospital waiting rooms, lecture halls, in New York, in Germany. Which is not to mention the huge segment of the play set in 1820s Vienna. The pool-of-light technique gives Kaufman’s affecting drama cinematic size and substance. It permits him to shuffle together the past and the present, to focus on the process of creating musical compositions (Beethoven’s “33 Variations”), scholarly books, to develop complicated family dynamics, romance, end-of-life friendships. 33 Variations is a laudably, and breath-takingly, ambitious work."
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John Olive