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...actor's performance ceased to exist on closing night. So Kingsley's Kean is a form of historical evocation, a tribute paid by one actor to another across the gulf of changing theatrical conventions. Other performers-Alfred Drake in a 1961 Broadway musical, Alan Badel in a 1971 London production of Jean-Paul Sartre's play Kean, Anthony Hopkins in a 1979 Masterpiece Theater-have played Kean as a romantic hero. Kingsley's triumph is one of energy over inspiration. He seems not to realize that in a one-man show, the only person...
...Shakespeare series. The Taming of the Shrew is sexist, he says, but it was, after all, written almost 400 years ago. Miller's patronizing tone may explain the flaw of this otherwise worthy production: it is not fun. The scenery is stunning, the direction fine, and Sarah Badel and John Cleese are engaging as Katharina and Petruchio, the shrew and her tamer. But more might have been expected of Miller, who showed his lively wit in Beyond the Fringe, and Cleese, mainspring of the Monty Python troupe. They may be doing a play from the 16th century, but they...
...third and final installment, Ms. Dugger reported that the present Director, Mr. Gordon, "...doubts the HIID would advise the Central African Empire...under the present government." Surely, he must have meant to refer to the government of former Emperor Jean-Badel Bokassa, which was overturned in September 1979, more than five months ago. The nation is now once again the Central African Republic, headed by President David Dacko, who is generally judged to be a benevolent leader. Former Emperor Bokassa is in exile in the Ivory Coast...
...does the film, at least not in its original 3-hr., 11-min. version. As a boy, Dax Xenos (Loris Loddi) sees his mother raped by the Fascisti. He swears revenge and years later the adult Dax (Bekim Fehmiu) helps a Castro-style Latin American leader named Rojo (Alan Badel) to survive a bloody uprising. On the way to the palacio, Dax becomes an insatiable voluptuary. According to Robbins' five-peseta psychology, the poor niño is cursed with the inability to feel-with his heart. With everything else, yes. But with that overworked organ...
...Charles Dilke (Charles D. Gray) is an eminent Liberal Party politician with excellent prospects of entering Gladstone's Cabinet. He is also a man with an indecorous sexual past. A young Mrs. Crawford (Sarah Badel), anxious to free herself from a disastrous marriage, arms her impotent husband with the information that she has not only committed adultery with Dilke but has also been his partner in more orgiastic antics. Though possibly innocent of wrongdoing with Mrs. Crawford, Sir Charles dare not defend his name, since he is guilty of a previous liaison with her mother (Coral Browne). The Crawford...