LOUISA MAY ALCOTT’S LITTLE WOMEN
by Lauren Gunderson
Directed by Joanie Schultz
Movement Direction/Intimacy Coaching by Vanessa Severo
Portland Center Stage & Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park 2025 & 2026
“The movement direction by Vanessa Severo (whose movement design I admired in Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s recent production of Shane) deserves special mention. As director Schultz is quick to acknowledge, the inventive but spartan scenic design works in large part because of the movement architecture that Severo has built to enhance scene transitions and shifts in perspective. Severo knows how to enlist embodied movement to spark imagination and to help us see and feel what otherwise is only suggested. ”
