INTO THE WOODS
MUSIC & LYRICS BY STEPHEN SONDHEIM
BOOK BY JAMES LAPINE
St. Petersburg Opera Company
Director: Raymond Zilberberg
Set: Brian Dudkiewicz
Costumes: Glenn Breed
Lighting: Keith Arsenault
*photography by Jim Swallow
“Brian Dudkiewicz’s stage design is deceptively simple and simply effective: The rear wall is a gigantic storybook, opened to its full width. The centerpiece is an enormous, barren tree, around which the characters frolic and plot. They disappear into its roots and behind its massive trunk.” - Bill DeYoung, Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
”Brian Dudkiewicz’s set is splendid in a minimalistic way. And the bare tree that was plopped in the center of it all was quite grandiose, towering, taking up most of the stage. It resembled something you’d find in Miss Havisham’s yard, with its imposing branches swiveling like Medusa snakes.” - Peter Nason, BroadwayWorld
”Brian Dudkiewicz’s scenic design, beautifully rendered, is very effective: an open book, discolored with age, and a prominent tree in front of that.” - William S. Oser, Talkin’ Broadway
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