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...picaresque narrative might be described as a cross between the Odyssey and the Arabian Nights. Or perhaps as a shaggy-dog story about a monkey: Douglas Hara, playing the monkey spirit, often steals the show. He's a cartwheeling, somersaulting, scaffold-climbing presence who occasionally releases, in his rare moments of repose, a pleasant simian cooing. The production abounds in lovely visual effects. Blending silks and spotlights, dragons and conveyor belts, Zimmerman serves up the Court of the Jade Emperor, a courier from Buddha, a ghost-king. There are slow stretches-much of the burlesque falls flat-but the overall...
There's something thrillingly voyeuristic about discovering that a well-known Tammany Hall politician was actually a woman who fooled her cronies and two wives, or finding out what T.E. Laurence was really doing in the Arabian desert...
Brattle Theatre. 40 Brattle St., HarvardSquare, 876-6837. "Arabian Nights" at 8 p.m.,"Canterbury Tales" at 5:45 p.m. and "TheDecameron" at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 16."Vanya on 42nd Street" at 3, 5:20, 7:40 and 10p.m. on Friday, Feb. 17 and Saturday, Feb. 18,with a Saturday matinee at 12:45 p.m. "TaxiDriver" at 3:30 and 7:55 and "Silence of theLambs" at 1:15, 5:40 and 10 p.m. on Sunday, Feb.19. "Atlantic City" at 3:40 and 7:50 and "LocalHero" at 1:30, 5:40 and 9:45 on Monday...
STOCKHOLM: Gift Horses Swedes are upset over the death of three Thoroughbred Arabian horses--victims, they say, of bureaucratic intransigence. The animals were an official present to Sweden from the chief of Pakistan's armed forces. Because Swedish law prohibits the direct import of horses from Asia, arrangements had been made to quarantine the animals in Estonia for six months. While the horses were in transit, Estonia changed its mind, and the animals were flown instead to Stockholm, where the Agriculture Ministry ordered them destroyed. ``It is awful,'' said a Stockholm resident. ``Imagine killing such beautiful living creatures...
...ageless panache of the 36 Rockettes in five precision prances, notably as a parade of wooden soldiers and as Raggedy Anns whose letter blocks eventually spell out merry christmas and a happy new year. A new version of The Nutcracker, with teddy bear dancers as sugar plum fairies, Arabian houris and Chinese pandas, is delicate, funny, winning. The climactic Nativity tableau -- teeming with camels, sheep, donkeys and some robust piety -- is bold enough to remind the audience who the real star of Christmas is. And, yes, there's a brisk, fanciful version of the Scrooge story -- in 12 minutes...