Word: beatriz
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...Beatriz O. Allocati...
...Beatriz Borrero Fleet Zion...
EVEN IF NAYLOR is coping as he was directed, Anne Strassner as Beatriz sometimes slips into reciting when acting poetry. Strassner is a Beatriz without innocence, more a Coppelia than a New Eve with her shoulders drooping and her tinge of petulance. She is as at her best at the end as she gulps from a silver vial that is supposed to redeem her poisonous blood--even though it seems to contradict her intent in the preceding speech...
...director with Chuck Gray) has engaging warmth as the young student and happy romantic. With robust simplicity, he blinds himself to the man-made net that entraps him far from the "green hills and sea foam" of his native Naples. Unfortunately, this makes his realization of the odiousness of Beatriz and the extent of his predicament as sudden as the play is short...
...acting, suggestiveness proliferates in the set and lighting. Plastic ferns and gaudy gold grapes appear hideous at first until they assume nightmarish vibrancy under the lights. Then again, it is appropriate to use flagrantly artificial plants for the garden of a supreme artificer. In addition, the tree which Beatriz calls her brother is made to resemble a stick figure of a man with his head at a tilt. Later, behind Beatriz drinking from the vial, the tree looms like a crucifix. The lighting (designed by James Meyer) creates an illusion of transparency as the Messenger blends...