Other van Hove productions that have used such projections have been widely praised by critics, including Brantley, who before dumping on All About Eve, had served up rave reviews of other van Hove productions, and described the Belgian director as “perhaps the most influential director of his generation in international theatre” (“Review: Shakespeare’s Take on the Game of Thrones”). Several critics 1 who shared Brantley’s dim appraisal of the film-to-stage adaptation traced its lifelessness to the videos van Hove projected onto a big screen above the stage at various times throughout the mixed-media production (see Figure 1). sleepwalking across the stage,” “on the edge of slipping into a coma.” In the mouths of van Hove’s cast, Brantley complained, the smart repartee of the classic 1950 film directed by Joseph Mankiewicz lands “with the thud of frivolous jokes at a funeral.”
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No critic of Ivo van Hove’s 2019 stage adaptation of All About Eve was more brutal than Ben Brantley of the New York Times, whose review, “‘All About Eve’ Gets the Vampire Treatment from Ivo van Hove,” condemned the play as a “vacuum ” an “enervated,” “exsanguinated,” “defeated,” “depleted,” “horror movie without a pulse ” and an “anemic spectacle.
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