“The production moved like a rolling dreamscape, an opera for the senses – and especially the heart.
Peter Kazaras has directed a production that has size, weight, and majesty. (yet never feels pompous or “Hollywood.”) He has kept the style heroic through the defined gestures and characters’ movements that are minimal and clean. At the same time, curiously, the staging never feels static, because the “universe” by means of the visuals is always moving, including the projections and the shifting color lighting by designer Robert Wierzel, who has used a bold and stunning palette that feels as if it has its own character arc.)
The juxtaposition of an ancient Biblical story with the high-tech display works to convey an ambitious vision of the cosmos and expanded sense of time. Kazaras and team never back away from taking on “the big” themes: man’s struggle to repair a broken relationship with God, catastrophic events in nature as a sign of this broken relationship and man’s failure to do the right thing, personal surrender and abdication of one’s own desires to be at one with something greater than oneself, and what it takes to save a people and heal a world. All this and more Kazaras has successfully rolled into this work.”