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Aubrey Jonathan Barth...
...real stars of the evening are Andrew Barth, as Iago and Romeo, and Stephanie Smith as Mercutio and Desdemona. It is tempting to imagine them as Viola and Malvolio or Beatrice and Benedick in some future HRDC production. Barth is wonderfully vicious as Iago, and his Romeo, while predictably over-the-top, retains more grace and wit than the buffoonish comedy demands Smith's comic zeal and exuberance make her the focus of every scene she is in; her Mercutio is delightful, and her Desdemona is as perfect a performance of that sadly banal role as could be imagined...
...play opens as Gordon, a shy bartender played with candor and sensitivity by Andrew Barth, is writing a personals ad. He is, in the playwright's own words, a "narrator left in the dark." Like Will Self's hermaphroditic Oxford don, Gordon is a postmodern creation. Recently, it has become deceptively easy to label anything vaguely eccentric as postmodern. But The Wombs of Angel Street, with its rejection of cause-effect linearity and its characters' use of subjective imagination to recreate reality, clearly embraces some of the genre's conventions...
...have piled up in warehouses, farm fields and abandoned aircraft hangers from Hamburg to Augsburg. Much more has been shipped abroad, some of it as far away as Indonesia, helping Germany become the globe's biggest exporter of trash. "This system has made us world-class litterbugs," says Norbert Barth, a spokesman for the environmentalist Greens party. "It is a waste-export system, not a waste-recycling system...
...John Barth's book Gelles Goat Boy seemed perfect to Ross I. Markonish '93, guitarist and vocalist...