"I’m thrilled to have four fantastic trumpeters—legends and rising stars—join my trio for an evening celebrating the richness and diversity of jazz trumpet greats: from Louis Armstrong to Miles Davis and beyond." — Ted Rosenthal
Director Jonathan Loy has done a fine job with this piece, giving us the drama and the romance without the major forces of a large "court" to surround or frame these elements. It is due to his vision that the piece, pared down to its needs, delivers the world of Mantua so very well.
It is wonderful that this fledgling company took the risk to bring this to the Berkshire public, because its glorious music and this stunning physical production also brings an extraordinary cast to our local stage.
SEVEN was commissioned in 2006 by the Washington, D.C.-based Vital Voices Global Partnership, which had seven playwrights dramatize the stories of seven women.
