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...director Jeffrey Rossman's production of The Merchant of Venice, which resembles the Bard's in script alone. Although the program informs us that "the action of the play occurs in the late 1920s" both before and after the stock market crash, the play incorporates such a hodgepodge of artifacts from different decades that it leaves us in no particular location at no particular point in time...
Unfortunately, that parallelism doesn't extend much farther; the dissatisfying, sometimes maudlin poetry and overt melodrama of Calderon's play - bears little resemblance to the bard's more skillful lines. Yet despite the flaws in the play, this Agassiz production does an admirable job in bringing Calderon's 350-year old imagery to vibrant life...
Halfway around the globe from Shakespeare's grave, the normally conservative government of the Australian of Victoria has heeded the curse of the Bard, and by doing so has shocked the scientific establishment. Because of tightened state laws, the University of Melbourne must relinquish its important collection of several hundred human bones between 9,000 and 13,000 years old. They will go to the Victoria Museum, where a panel will decide whether the bones should be reinterred. The move was yet another victory for Australia's native people, the aborigines, who, in an effort to reclaim their...
...movie setting: a theater under the stars in Manhattan's Central Park. Since 1957, when a flatbed truck carrying Joseph Papp's touring Free Shakespeare Festival broke down near Belvedere Lake, Central Park has served as the backdrop, the chorus and occasionally the antagonist of the Bard's plays. So, as the storm clouds of war form on King Henry's brow, the summer sun sets abruptly, leaving audience and players in the dark. Henry addresses his troops before battle, and some low-flying aircraft provide martial rumblings. Henry and Katharine share their first kiss...
...They read Shakespeare precisely because they realize that he belongs to a different world and time, and they want to taste and sense that time." Since last week marked the 420th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth, perhaps the final word (excerpted from King Lear) should go to the Bard himself: "Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.'' -By Gerald Clarke. Reported by Melissa August/Washington