THE AUDIENCE QUIETED TO THE OCCASION

It was a pleasure to hear actual human voices articulate from the stage of the Studio 54 Theatre during Almeida Theatre’s Oedipus, a clever contemporary transposition of Sophocles’ 2,500 year old tragedy. Actors really knew how to project back then in the open-air Theatre of Dionysus. If today’s crew were miked, the miking was so subtle that you could have fooled me. Some of the sound effects, on the other hand, are little over loud. But you could hear every word the actors spoke, and the audience seemed extra attentive as they acclimated to the fact that they really needed to listen up.