Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bonn's direction of the large group scenes is quite adept. She can cram the stage with numerous bustling actors yet the audience's attention remains clearly focused. Bonn and choreographer Holly Hendrickson devised several good moments for smaller scenes as well; the sight of Richard dancing in and out of Despard's cape as they scheme together provides one such memorable...
...production's only real weakness lies in the unsatisfying finale. Presented "just as Gilbert wrote it," the ending seems forced, almost hurried, although Bonn tries to lessen the perfunctory note with sensitive staging. Hannah's prominent grief, for example, nicely mitigates the atmosphere of mechanical, happily-ever-after celebration. Nevertheless, the production could have punched or prolonged the moment--brought in the chorus, perhaps, to ooh and ah as Robin explains how he's "broken" the curse...
...satire. It teems with mad love-sick girls and baronets in disguise and family curses and portraits that come to life. Despite the absence of the celebrated Gilbert and Sullivan social wit and a rather abrupt finale, the show is as visually dazzling as it is technically brilliant. Sully Bonn's direction provides both spine-tingling and spine-tickling moments, and costumes and sets are executed with the customary G & S expertise. But enough of this undignified gushing. Simply see it if you can. Ruddigore plays tonight, Friday and Saturday at Agassiz Theatre; tickets available at the door...
...terrorist problem grew, the government began changing the rules. In 1974 the parliament in Bonn adopted a law permitting the exclusion of defense counsel if he or she were suspected of participating with the defendants in their criminal acts or obstructing justice. Last year, after Schleyer's kidnaping, parliament enacted a "contact ban," permitting courts to cut off terrorist prisoners from all outside communication-including their lawyers under certain circumstances. Last week the Bundestag passed new antiterror rules that would further restrict the rights of defendants and their attorneys. Among them: placing a physical barrier between a lawyer...
...regulation that allows government officials to deny civil service jobs to people on suspicion of radical activities, smack of McCarthyism. "It's simplistic to say there is an underlying trend toward fascism," says Gerald Grünwald, professor of criminal procedure at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn, "but there is a tendency toward an authoritarian state and a limitation of freedom." Notes Margret Möller, legal adviser to the Christian Democratic Union, whose conservative members push for even more stringent restrictions: "Nonsense, these people, the terrorists and their lawyers, don't believe in our system...