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Synopsis: Elevator Repair Service combines elements of slapstick comedy, hi-tech and lo-tech design, both literary and found text, found objects and discarded furniture, and the group's own highly developed style of choreography. Recently, the ensemble's focus has turned to literature with shows based on the work of Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Jack Kerouac. ERS's new work is based on William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, developed during several residencies at NYTW.
Reviews
NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW:
"For the record, Elevator Repair Service’s Sound and the Fury (April Seventh, 1928) lasts over two and a half hours, counting intermission. Or that’s what my watch said at the end of this hypnotic re-creation of the opening section of William Faulkner’s 1929 novel. But I really had no idea of how long I had been sitting in a state of rapt, oddly contented confusion at New York Theater Workshop, where the production opened on Tuesday night. The minutes had shrunk, stretched, flown, crept, sagged and stood still, sometimes all at once."
Click here to read the full The Sound and the Fury review.
VARIETY REVIEW:
"In downtown theater, Elevator Repair Service has long been dubbed an Important Company, earning an adventurous reputation with wild, literary-minded experiments like a 6½ hour adaptation of The Great Gatsby. Now, as it storms New York Theater Workshop with an adaptation of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, ERS is playing its most mainstream venue to date. To the company's credit, it hasn't sold out with an obvious crowd-pleaser."
Click here to read the full The Sound and the Fury review.
THE NEW YORK POST REVIEW:
"First, an admission: I've never gotten all the way through William Faulkner's classic The Sound and the Fury, with its difficult, stream-of-consciousness style. And after sitting through The Sound and the Fury (April Seventh, 1928), the Elevator Repair Service's adaptation of the novel's first section, which opened last night, I'm unlikely to try again."
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THEATERMANIA REVIEW:
"If you've never read William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, you probably won't get much out of Elevator Repair Service's The Sound and the Fury (April Seventh, 1928), now at New York Theatre Workshop. Even if you have read the novel, you may still be hard pressed to appreciate the experimental troupe's perplexing and only occasionally dynamic treatment of the text."
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