Up in Arms' staging of Winterreise is a fraught and evocative slow-burner. Schubert's song cycle, based on Wilhem Muller's poems, is lent an unusual dimension through puppetry and animation. A figure in a sack takes front and centre of the small, darkened theatrical space. It is unveiled by director and baritone Thomas Guthrie with the [...]
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:12AM on December 14, 2011