A poster for “The Death of Meyerhold,” a play L. took me to for V-day. The show was a the Studio Theatre, upstairs in the fourth floor's open theatre (where the stage is not elevated but the audience sits on risers). It's an interesting space and allows every seat to be a great seat because you're very close to the action no matter where you are. The space was especially great for this production in which part of the point was to illustrate the unusual interactive nature of Meyerhold's acting method. The play tells the life story of Meyerhold, a late 19th-early 20th century Russian director who called his acting method “grotesque realism” for its exaggerated nature and for the fact that it attempted to emphasize its own role as performance. The space made it easy and intimate for the actors to break the “4th wall” and speak directly to the audience, and the actors were also continually running up and down the short aisles, so the “wall” between audience and performance was less a wall than an idea, which was very cool. In all, it was a great performance. For more, read the WaPo review. Here's another rave from the San Francisco performance. It really was a great show.