The Yale Cabaret was dark last weekend as scheduled, will present Joshua Conkel’s MilkMilkLemonade Nov. 8-10, again as scheduled. Then the schedule fails. The production of Ionesco’s The Chairs planned for the Nov. 15-17 slot has been cancelled, and back-up plans came to nought, so that will be another dark weekend at 217 Park Street.
Fortunately, the Cab will make up for the loss by adding an extra show to its yet-to-be-announced Spring season, maintaining the student-run theater’s accustomed quota of 18 main attractions per school year.
If you absolutely MUST see a production of the chairs this month, I recommend this concise, four-minute long, personalized animated adaptation by Joseph Ferreira: http://vimeo.com/3796647
and this full production by the Hai-Po theater of Israel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvYbBnuvBG4&feature=plcp
No two productions of any Ionesco play are ever remotely the same, so we’ll never be able to guess what the Yale Cabaret might have done with The Chairs. On the other hand, it’s nice to dream.