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...University of California, Berkeley, Rosovsky taught economics and history from 1958 to 1965. He also chaired the Center on Japanese and Korean studies from 1962 to 1965, when he came to Harvard as a professor of economics...
FUENTE OVEJUNA. The Spanish classic of a feudal village's revenge against a tyrannical overlord took London by storm last season in an electrifying new translation that makes its U.S. debut at California's Berkeley...
Other critics said they had suffered in the collapse of the junk-bond market or had taken pay cuts in the aftermath of corporate buyouts. Claude Daughtry, a real estate agent in Berkeley, complained that he had lost money in the junk-bond debacle and called Milken's fine a travesty. Ronald Cornwall, a Pennsauken, N.J., grocery clerk, said his salary plunged from $33,000 to $24,700 when his employer, Pathmark, was acquired...
...sure, the text has been nudged into modernity in the new translation and adaptation by Adrian Mitchell. His version took London by storm last season, winning an Olivier Award, and makes its U.S. debut at California's Berkeley Repertory Theater. The language is vernacular, sometimes vulgar, and even titled characters are stripped of grandeur and persiflage. The multiracial casting reflects contemporary America more than feudal Spain. Stylistically, the 20th century influence of Bertolt Brecht is evident throughout in the Marxist class analysis, didactic political sloganeering and use of song and dance to preach...
...Berkeley Rep's production benefits from fluid, cinematic staging by the company's artistic director, Sharon Ott, and a highly adaptable village-square setting by Kate Edmunds. The production is so good that even a predictable climax -- the villain's armed intrusion at the wedding of a shepherd he despises and a maiden he means to rape -- achieves the abrupt power of surprise. Among a solid ensemble cast, Jack Heller is a wonderfully hissable overlord, full of chill arrogance and hot rage, and Domenique Lozano and Stephen Burks are the most affecting of his victims. The chief asset, however...