From mirrors to emptiness: The stage at the Theater Basel’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s “Into the Woods"

For the first act, the stage at the Theater Basel's current production of Stephen Sondheim's "Into the Woods", directed by Martin G. Berger, has rotating mirrors against a black background. The fairy-tale characters mostly stay near the front of the stage to sing their parts, reflected in the mirrors and occasionally disappearing behind them. After the first act ends with "happily ever after", the second begins with the same stage, but later the mirrors, as well as the fairy-tale spectacle, retreat to the back of the stage and are hidden behind a curtain, and the singers are left to come to terms with the plot's twists on an empty black stage. (Andrew Shields, #111words, 26 January 2025)