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Compare, for instance, the warmth and easy rapport of these obviously experienced players-now in their fifth season-with the seemingly bogus spiritual communion of the Loeb actors in last year's Grotowski experiment, The Three Sisters. Grotowski's method was salient throughout the production, but it didn't add to (frequently detracted from) Chekhov's script. If animal magnetism caused the players to embrace each other at the end of the play, their frantic hugging gave the audience at least an emblem of deep feelings which, purely as artists, they were unable to make the audience share...
...three children but no money. Without even showing identification, they were signed up for the whole program on the spot. Another presented herself at a local office and though not asked for identification, volunteered to present a rent receipt. Whereupon she left the office, only to return with a bogus receipt written on a scrap of paper bag by Mrs. Whitner...
Harpo's production of Oedipus makes a similar statement about the bogus exaltation of human tragedy to cathartic spectacle, wherein great men fall from pinnacles in the all-seeing determinist universe of the Fates. Director Laurence Senelick has chosen the Seneca version over the traditional Sophocles "to remove the play from the realms of both Freudian psychology and aloof neo-classicism." This may also mean that he has chosen a play which, because of its gore and violence, leads to a denial that there is anything more in suffering than suffering; a denial that tragedy can be uplifting in transcending...
...impossible to tell what appealed to the judges at the Cannes Film Festival and prompted them to award the movie the Jury Prize. To foreign eyes, it may seem an accurate presentation of the American venacular which fascinates many French. It is particularly American insofar as it is a bogus excursion into social truth. Horovitz, who has given the director only the tiniest characterizations to build the movie on. As long as large film companies produce and sell movies such as this masquerading as honesty or confrontation, many opinions will remain romanticized, muddled, and as annoyingly cute as this film...
...reunited with his wife and his long-lost daughter, Perdita, Imagine the final scene: the persecuted queen is on a pedestal frozen in a statue pose. Enter Leontes with full court procession. Lo, the statue moves. Queen Hermione kisses Leontes, then embraces Perdita. Thus far, the sentiments seem as bogus as the stage mechanism. In answer to the general call for "light libations," all the company extras stream onstage from different directions, eagerly awaiting their cue before launching on a final dance-spree...