![]() ![]() "The Piano Tuner" features a prominent singing role for mezzo soprano Laurel Cameron. "It makes for theater that is very disarming and then can sneak up on you and hit you with something you didn't see coming." ![]() "Married with that very intense physicality and astute cultural commentary is an almost naive acting style," LeFevre said. She says what makes the company unique is the group's pursuit of intriguing ideas about life and humanity through an intense physicality rooted in a clowning tradition. Star Tribune free-lance critic Camile LeFevre says the members of Live Action Set have their own way of putting together ideas. Instead their shows are built collaboratively in rehearsal through improvisation and games until a coherent story and narrative arc emerge. Odell says that's typical for Live Action Set's productions. Nothing was set in stone for the show in terms of the story." "I knew that some sorts of things might happen to them, but maybe they wouldn't. "I basically knew there was this family," she said. The idea for "The Piano Tuner" came from Live Action Set's co-artistic director Megan Odell about three years ago. He fantasizes of a world in which he's an accomplished pianist and the mother a great operatic singer. The piano tuner returns for a second visit, but now pretends to hear the piano. The mother, however, hears a painful dissonance and covers her ears, much to the confusion of the piano tuner. When the piano tuner arrives to fix the instrument, he plunks the keys, but the piano makes no sound. ![]()
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