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Once it was Greenwich Village. Then it was Chelsea, Coenties Slip and the Bowery. Now the place to be, if you are a young New York artist with nowhere to go but up, is the city's newest bohemia: a dingy, littered area of 19th century factory buildings called SoHo (because it is south of Houston Street). Before the '60s, few outsiders braved SoHo's trash and traffic except architecture buffs, who admired the area's Italianate cast-iron facades. But for some 2,000 to 3,000 artists today, the neighborhood has become a last...
Leigh Woods' portrayal of King Leontes was one excellent feature of this production. He dominates the opening third of the play which centers around the suspected infidelity of his queen Hermoine and his brother King Polixenes of Bohemia. Leontes's jealous rage leads to his wife's execution (only faked as we later discover) and the banishment of her infant child. Perdita, Fair Perdita grows up in the care of simple shepherds, while her father exercises his sins in stern contrition...
...leaders of Prague's short-lived Springtime of Freedom have long since been silenced. Alexander Dubček is variously reported on an extended vacation in Slovakia or undergoing treatment in a Prague sanatorium. Josef Smrkovsky, the onetime darling of Czechoslovak liberals, is on an enforced vacation in Bohemia. Hundreds of other officials, journalists and even schoolteachers have lost their jobs. But under the hard-line regime of Party Boss Gustav Husàk, who replaced Dubček seven months ago, the purges...
...cannot hope to deal with them all. One example: Antigonus is given by Leontes the unhappy chore of dispatching Hermione's newborn baby girl. He takes to ship with the idea of leaving it somewhere, and is directed by Hermione's ghost to leave it in the deserts of Bohemia. Now Antigonus, after leaving the baby, is supposed to be killed by a bear: his last words...
With Bob and Carol as their spiritual advisers, however, it is only natural that they should end up with their middle-class values intact. The only possibility Tucker and Maszurky give Ted and Alice to consider is Southern California's Rolls-Royce variety of bohemia. And for that reason, the movie is a cop-out; the supposed Bob and Carol versus Ted and Alice conflict does not exist as Bob and Carol are paper tigers; it is all, so to speak, philosophically shitty...