Word: 16th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...theatrical vehicle, Prokofiev's libretto is so outlandish as to be curiously fascinating and, at times, good fun. Based on a Gothic tale by the Russian symbolist writer Valery Bryusov, Angel is set in 16th century Germany and revolves, or rather, rolls around a fetching young damsel named Renata (Soprano Eileen Schauler). Unfortunately, she has an advanced case of the screaming meemies. In the first act she bares her problem in a long aria while writhing around the stage on her stomach...
Frozen Feud. Though the air was filled with cries for peace, no one had any high hopes of getting it. The battle that has been joined on the Punjab plain has been building for hundreds of years. Ever since the 16th century Mogul invasion of India, Moslems and Hindus have fought each other for control of the subcontinent. The age-old feud was put in cold storage during the long era of British rule, but burst into flame in all its old fury in 1947 as both India and Pakistan became independent...
...devotion to that end, the 800 delegates issued a unanimous resolution: "Ecumenicity, as expressed in the World Council of Churches, represents a false concept of Christian unity and has no Biblical basis; its leadership includes men who have apostatized from the faith, it betrays the glorious heritage of the 16th century Reformation and acts as an instrument for building an apostate super-church." The resolution ended with an appeal to groups belonging to the World Council to "withdraw from this unholy alliance...
...mind being rapidly transported from 1935 Cologne to 16th century Merrie England to an empty theater in the provinces, and you're not one of those people who takes offense at having a message drummed into you by both play and actors, it will be well worth your while to catch the show at the Ex tonight. Lopez Morrillas' performance in itself will be enough to make you consider the evening well spent...
...raphin Audiberti, 66, leading French avant-garde playwright, novelist and poet, a surrealist who enlivened the French stage in 1946 with Quoat-Quoat, a bitter commentary on self-martyrdom, and in 19 other plays depicted the conflict of good and evil in a jarring mixture of scatological slang and 16th century classicism, in 1962 causing near riots when the most scandalous of all, The Ant in the Body, was consecrated at France's venerable Comédie-Française; of cancer; in Paris...