Word: antoon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sadly, Zoo Manager Antoon van Hooff took Roosje home for bottle feeding. After being isolated from her peers, Roosje would probably never be accepted by the colony and would be sent to another zoo to grow up caged...
Strindberg wrote The Dance of Death in two parts; as is becoming customary with this play, Director AJ. Antoon is staging only the first part in this production at Manhattan's Lincoln Center. Despite a distinguished cast, this is a narrowly drawn onenote, or perhaps two-note kind of performance. It mixes rage and exhaustion the way old club fighters hack away and then fall into each other's clinch, softly drubbing the kidneys, to rest for a little while. (A few years ago, Friedrich Duerrenmatt staged The Dance of Death literally as a boxing match...
...presented by Director A.J. Antoon, the play proved ideal for the small screen. Indeed, the incessant eavesdropping made for intimate scenes of discovered emotion while the plotting was as easy to follow as Mission...
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...
...time and place are not 16th century Messina, but turn-of-the-century America. In both periods, wars can be won with small loss and loves pursued with grand stratagems. Courtship and cozening can unfold while the players dance the maxixe. Antoon and Choreographer Donald Saddler abscond with reality so neatly that one is willing to believe in the characters...