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...radical students dared to reveal a similar low regard for Mao. One radical Red Guard publication commented in January 1968, that Mao had made an "abstract prediction" in 1966 when he had forecast that the Cultural Revolution would midwife a Communist "utopia." "Everything remains the same after so much ado," the youths lamented...
...Much Ado About Nothing is, in the words of Bernard Shaw, "perhaps the most dangerous actor-manager trap in the Shakespearean repertory." It is a comedy wrapped around a tragedy; it demands directors and actors who can be both funny and serious. Yet it can also be- as this brilliant TV version of the current Broadway production demonstrated-a dazzling reward for actor, manager and audience alike...
...with happy incongruity in Ted dy Roosevelt's America, this Much Ado was all gingerbread and gingham. Benedick smoked cigars, wore a boater and, as he is played by Sam Waterston, looked like a dyspeptic basset hound...
Impossible. With telling closeups, like Faberge-crafted, peekaboo Easter eggs, Antoon created an almost three-dimensional illusion of depth. Like the Faberge egg itself, this Much Ado was a jewel...
FRIDAY: Much Ado About Nothing. Producer Joseph Papp brings a jazzed-up version of the Bard to television with a pre WWI setting and brassy music. Choreography by Donald Saddler ("No, No Nanette"). CH. 7, Color...