Kirjahaku

"...THE WONDERFUL TOWER is a funny, poignant, and engrossing story centering around Humbert Lavoignet, an unemployed mailman who has fallen into a six-month trance. When Humbert awakes, he announces that God has ordered him to do something wonderful. Humbert's inspiration is to build a tower of junk... Humbert is willing to sacrifice everything for the tower: his home, his marriage, and the love of his son... Lynne Alvarez's story is novel and coherent... The characters are realistic, and speak with the simple poetry of ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances... While it is too early, and perhaps unimportant, to predict what place THE WONDERFUL TOWER OF HUMBERT LAVOIGNET will hold in theatrical history, it is fair to call it one of the best and most significant plays to open this year]..." Paul Dwyer, The Times Record (Albany) "THE WONDERFUL TOWER OF HUMBERT LAVOIGNET is a play about vision, faith, and sacrifice... Alvarez has kept HUMBERT LAVOIGNET lean, light, and unencumbered... ...genuinely entertaining and engaging..." Jim Reilly, The Saratogian

While the dance world celebrated Vaslav Nijinsky's meteoric rise to fame in the early 1900s, few were privy to the private side of this creative genius. This bold play explores Nijinsky's shipboard courtship of, and marriage to, Romola DePulsky, a relationship that would span thirty years, weathering his exile and frequent bouts of madness. "When the house lights came up following the curtain call, the transfixed opening-night audience refused to leave, its applause not diminishing, till the actors] emerged for another bow." Michael Feingold, The Village Voice