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Article: Reworked 'Games of Steel' gains clarity, strength
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- Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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- April 26, 2007
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Attack Theatre's "Games of Steel," a dance-rock opera that
premiered in Pittsburgh in 2005, returns to town after a major
reworking followed by a seven-city American tour that prompted Dance
Magazine to call the show "ever-entertaining and hellishly fun."
Michelle de la Reza and her husband, Peter Kope, co-directors of
Attack Theatre, created "Games of Steel" with their collaborators
including company musical director David Eggar. She feels the story
is clearer, and the music and dance are stronger in the revised
version.
"The guiding mantra as we were exploring this piece and creating
it was playing one side -- steel both metaphorically and as physical
structures -- against the other side: ...