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Suzanne Capehart

Stories from Suzanne Capehart

09 Between the Lines Cast
Theater Without a Net
The English Lovers premiere Between the Lines, an improvished English portrait of modern life in these acts
Suzanne Capehart
01/05/2010

Improvisation is to comedy like dancing on a high wire without a net. This is theater on a flying trapeze. Soaring unbound, it is art intensified by risk.

Peace Among The Ashes
Sankt Marx bestows peace on both the dead and the living
Suzanne Capehart
01/05/2010

Usually, I make a point of avoiding cemeteries, preferring the company of the animated Prater or the human density of Kärntnerstraße than that special plot of land commemorating the last thing we’ll ever do.

08 U-bahn
Dialogue in the Dark
Crossing streets and building bridges in the dark
Suzanne Capehart
01/04/2010

All I could hear was the scuffling of shoes and the plodding of feet. I felt heavy breathing from behind me, making the hair on the back of my neck prickle. My pace instinctively quickened before I realized the pursuers’ breath was only warm air blowing from an unseen vent. And then I made contact.

“Someone just stepped on my foot,” my friend announced, loud enough for the whole group to hear.

“That was me, sorry.” I shot back in a whisper, hoping no one could see me blushing. Then I remembered no one could see me at all.

08 Flowers
Waltz of The Flowers
The purest form of voyeurism, and ritual dramas of pleasure
Suzanne Capehart
01/03/2010

In my life, flower shops had always been the setting for performance anxiety. However beautiful, these were still the places where awkward teenage boys gathered the day before the prom, ordering last minute corsages and boutineers. They concealed the tensions of a long-awaited wedding day — Lilies-of-the-Valley to match the bride’s dress or red chrysanthemums to symbolize love? They masked the intense sorrow of a funeral or a wake.

09 Lynsey Thurgar
The Evil In Us All
In a new adaptation of R.L. Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Jeffrey Hatcher, the darker self is humanized and harder to deny
Dániel Glöckler
Suzanne Capehart
01/03/2010

Everyone has a little evil in them. In the current production Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde playing at the International Theatre through Mar. 27, we see more than a little. Based on Jeffrey Hatcher’s adaptation of the novella by Robert Louis Stevenson, this version breaks out of its Victorian frame to mythic proportions: The dormant evil within the respectable Dr. Jekyll explodes into shards of uncontrolled desire and pain, and as Mr. Hyde, his humanity unravels in primal rage.

More Honors for Austrian Film
For Austrians Michael Haneke and Christoph Waltz, the red carpet is woven with shadows of the past
Suzanne Capehart
01/02/2010

In an unprecedented sweep of this year’s Golden Globe Awards, top honors went to two Austrians, director Michael Haneke and actor Christoph Waltz, continuing a surge of recent interest in the country’s film industry. Haneke’s Das Weiße Band, submitted as a German production, gleaned the award for Best Foreign Film, while Waltz’s performance in Inglourious Basterds earned him Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role.

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