Word: blendings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into the record books. At 12 he was the youngest player ever to qualify for the British championship, at 14 the world's youngest current international master, and at 19 the world's youngest grandmaster. All the while he struggled through school as the genius underachiever striving unsuccessfully to blend in with the guys. He went easy on the studies, grew his hair long and played bass guitar in a punk band called the Urge...
...play is the richest yet by Bennett, known in the U.S. mainly for such minimalist video dramas as An Englishman Abroad with Alan Bates and Talking Heads with Maggie Smith. The staging's cinematic blend of pageantry and intimacy is a drama showcase for Hytner, best known for musicals such as Broadway's Miss Saigon and the Broadway-bound London revival of Carousel. The brevity of the eight-week U.S. run, combined with its vast scale -- 23 actors onstage and a staff of 22 -- pretty much ensures it will be at best a break- even for the Royal National. Explains...
...audience it's a vivid exercise in style. Or more precisely, an exercise in fashion. Scott made his name directing British TV spots; he can make each image yummy, seductive, good enough to buy, whether the scene is selling sex, violence or some slick sociopathic blend of the two. He pummels your eye with wide-screen close-ups that eroticize violence and give a lurid threat to the sex. The love scene is a French- kissin', torso-lickin' jeans ad set to cinema. In the big shoot-out at the end, bloody cushion feathers smother the screen...
...Prize in drama -- the first work ever to do so without being staged in New York City. Normally, the award brings box-office wealth and a clamor of producers seeking one's next work. But everything about this show is unusual: its length, its two-century sweep, its sprawling blend of domestic cruelty and historical revisionism. As a commercial venture, it is also daunting for its cast of 20 and the need to induce audiences to commit to two three-hour sessions. So it has taken nearly a year and a half to reach New York...
...Crown and onstage as Portia to Hoffman's Shylock. But most of the time she and the rest of the cast wear masks, as the Greeks would have done. This helps ensure that the real star of the play is the play, which may be the most cunning blend ever of high moral purpose and low humor. Its premise is that war-weary women of Greece convene and vow to give up sex until their men give up battle. That is no small sacrifice: the women are just as lusty as the men, and their triumph is of will over...