THE (EDWARD) HOPPER PROJECT: Post Your Review
Posted by DCA Theater on January 19, 2010
January 15 - February 21
Storefront Theater
WNEP Theater brings to life a mosaic of characters inspired by the paintings of American realist artist Edward Hopper. In a series of vignettes and short moments written by WNEP company members, a dozen actors follow Hopper’s New York from dawn to dark and thrust the audience into the quiet desperation and dark comedy of the city.
View photos by John W. Sisson, Jr.
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Mary Houlihan of the Chicago Sun Times wrote a great preview of show. She quotes director Don Hall: “This is a slice of life from Hopper’s many different perspectives.” Click here to read the full review.
Hedy Weiss of the Chicago Sun Times writes: “Enter the Storefront Theater, where...’The (edward) Hopper Project’...is now on ‘display,’ and you will find the artist’s world has been neatly reinvented from a visual point of view.” Click here to read the full review.
New City Stage recommends “Hopper,” writing: “There are eight million stories in the naked city, and WNEP lets us eavesdrop on a handful of them...The ringmaster directing the whole thing is Don Hall [who] pulls off the three- or four- or five-ring circus with deceptive ease.” Click here to read the full review.
Albert Williams of the Chicago Reader calls the show “visually ingenious” and “inventively whimsical,” but sometimes “at odds with the sense of understated ambiguity that makes Hopper’s work unique.” Click here to read the full review.
Joe Stead of Steadstyle Chicago writes: “A loosely woven crazy quilt, ‘The Hopper Project’ lacks a compelling or dramatic focal point, however it has subtle rewards.” Click here to read the full review.
The production corrals the work of a complex artist, often at oblique angles without “freeze-framing” all of the iconic images. The fact that the women portrayed are the same woman painted over and over again makes the interpretations even more in line with Hopper’s fantasies. His wife and muse ,Josephine had her hair color changed, height added to her 5’ stature and weight added to her diminutive size, but all of them were modeled from her poses. Thanks for adding a unique perspective to what can be presented on the printed page.