Word: bergonzi
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...Nucleo Eclettico theater is modern love poetry set to music, set to an actor and actress, set to life. The playwrights, Sam Shepard and Joseph Chaikin, combine drama and poetry to explore all the problems and possibilities of communication between a MAN (Kelvin Kerage) and a WOMAN (Maryann Bergonzi). Itself an experiment in communication, this stylistic compromise of genres achieves a rare and successful blend of sensitivity and irony...
...Bergonzi puts an impressive emotional intensity into her next lines: "I want to strangle your dreams...I want to know that I'll die before you--I want to know that I'll die before we aren't lovers anymore." Bergonzi radiates energy, skipping across a wide range of expression from a throaty Mac West to wounded silence. Although she overacts a little when in her coquettish voice, the rest of her performance is polished and professional...
...SAME DUALISM extends into the two characters. While Bergonzi is energetic, bouncing at times along with the music of the three-piece band, Keraga is reserved, reading several of his first Race deadpan from a script that WOMAN gives him. Keraga gets a chance to display his ability, oddly enough, in a scene in which MAN cannot express himself. He deftly executes the complicated task of communicating a communications breakdown. Keraga's rather emotionless stutterings raise the unsettling possibility that MAN does not care whether he is being understood...
...Kath, 42-year-old Mary Ann Bergonzi portrays with remarkable depth and understanding a desparate woman's attempt to find love Her surface simple-mindedness contrasts dynamically with her constant hyperactive movements, eliciting pity for her abject loneliness Kath epitomizes a woman in search of someone to love...
...depth of these performances is frightening. Too peculiar to be stereotypical, the roles reveal one family's bizarre attempt to barter for an outsider's affections. Warner has gathered an excellent case, enabling novice Samols and professional Bergonzi to give equally riveting performances...