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The miniature locker room off to one side of Mosaic Theatre’s stage looks every bit like a museum piece, festooned with Super Bowl pennants, Green Bay nameplates and scuffed cleats, and preserved for transfer to the NFL Hall of Fame, where waxen Packers will stand chiseled in pregame ritual.
This attention to minutia defines Mosaic’s visual approach for Lombardi, Eric Simonson’s fresh-off-Broadway drama about a week in the life of legendary Packers Coach Vince Lombardi. The sets at Mosaic are usually ravishing, but this time, designer Douglas Grinn has outdone himself, transforming the smallish space in the American Heritage Center for the Arts into the aforementioned locker room, an office, two semicircles of domesticity, a pub, and, centrally, a gridiron battleground illuminated by stadium floodlights. There’s even a JumboTron hanging from the ceiling, projecting highlights from the Packers’ video archive.
Thursdays-Sundays, 7 p.m. Starts: Nov. 27. Continues through Dec. 4, 2011
