The Duke Theater
229 W 42nd St
646.223.3010
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The Waves
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Nov 12, 2008 – Nov 22, 2008
Tuesdays–Fridays (8pm)
Saturdays (3 & 8pm)
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- Price
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$60
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The National Theatre of Great Britain's extraordinary production of The Waves is a genre-defying, highly visual adaptation of Virginia Woolf's stream-of-consciousness novel of the same name. Part of Lincoln Center's Great Performers series, but staged in an intimate black box at the Duke on 42nd Street, Waves feels like a hybrid between a radio show and the set of a high-tech independent film, as the tightly choreographed cast of eight alternates between handling props, operating video cameras, enacting characters, reading text, and producing sounds. Paradoxically, by exposing the process of crafting these luminous scenes, Waves amplifies their impact, creating rich characters from the constant flow of words and images.
