An intimate, 100-minute revival at Classic Stage Company opened Thursday night on the small thruststage, crisply directed and designed by John Doyle (director of the Broadway revivals of "Sweeney Todd" and "Company").
Mr. Doyle, who also designed the set for this production, has approached "Passion" not as a naturalistic love story but as a piece of lyric theater, placing it in the simplest of environments, an open thruststage, and arranging the actors in quasiballetic stage groupings that are as poetic as the songs they sing.