Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...downright expansive--not an easy effect when your setting is the Garden of Eden and you want to speak simply but not so simply that everything seems symbolic. Director Rob Hershman works with the expansiveness, and when he gets such fine performances out of Richard Bangs and Adam and Catherine Dean as Eve, what emerges is something that shovels ideas less than it rolls out words in a glorious ramble...
...first act is tricky because it's slow--the serpent teaching Adam and Eve the meaning of death, hope and conception with little action and a lot of talk. Again--when you have Paradise as the scene the danger lies in seeming ponderous. Here the solution--as in, say, "The Blue Angel"--is sensuality: it takes care of fluidity, momentum and vividness in a fell swoop if it's used right. Hershman does, by making his serpent a double image, played by two women, Gypsy Knocks and Victoria Kins. They never stop moving, swaying and undulating in a coiling mass...
What is really exceptional here, though, is the acting. Adam is cold, Aryan and deliberate, a Max von Sydow who is best when working with his hands, saying quietly, "Life is still long enough to learn how to dig." He bore suffering and experience well, which sets the mood of the second act. But the suffering of Eve is even more important...
...Cain returns, brandishing a spear, and in the mother son exchange that follows Dean throws so much of herself into the part, quivers with so much wise fire, that the most devastating line in the play by contrast is spoken simply and softly, unacted: "All you men, except only Adam, are my sons, or my sons's sons, or my sons's sons's sons...
Jenkins, potentially the best forward in the East, is such a talented athlete that, even though he performed poorly on defense (his man, Adam Sutton, scored 25 points), he still managed to score 18 himself and grab a game-leading 15 rebounds. At 6 ft. 8 in. Jenkins moves as gracefully as a guard and is accurate shooting inside or outside...