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...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...
Dogberry, the buffoon-cop in Much Ado About Nothing, seems unable to know his duty, let alone do it. Yet through his good offices, villains and sweethearts alike get theirs. So it is with A.J. Antoon, 27, the Joseph Papp prodigy-protegé who staged That Championship Season. Now Antoon has directed the New York Shakespeare Festival celebration of Much Ado as if unaware of the usual approach to Shakespearean farce, the mannered conceits that often seem aimed at pleasing only the performers and antiquarians. Ignorant of his "duty," Antoon knows only that the play is a comedy and that...
...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...
...Broken Drum, was a quick flop, has chiseled out each role to give it the clean profile of humanity and of pity. The actors do him proud, seeming to have traveled every step of the way, from adolescent victory to middle-aged defeat, laughing and crying together. Director A.J. Antoon, who directed Cymbeline in Central Park last summer, has wrung a triumph of ensemble acting from these splendid players. To Joseph Papp, "Bravo!" once again. Serious drama has no finer friend. ·T.E.K...
Karen Lynne Gorney (the Cook) is fairly convincing in her difficult role as the sometimes hardened, prideful cook, sometimes protective mother-of-the-earth. The best performance, however, is A. J. Antoon's, who is an actual seminarist playing the role of seminarist-son of the cook. His shame and cowardliness are painfully real...