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...defensive line has simply not been able to make the necessary stops to finish out ballgames. In Jack Siedlecki’s base 5-2 set, senior Don Smith and junior Brandon Dyches will line up at defensive end. Inside, the Bulldogs will likely have promising freshman Brandt Hollander and junior Andrew Ralph at defensive tackle while senior Willie Cruz will line up on the nose...
...havoc caused by small men with greatly misguided schemes is to pine for liberal giants like Willy Brandt, the focal figure of Michael Frayn?s play ?Democracy,? which has been running in London for nearly a year. Brandt, who left Germany for Norway in 1933 and helped resistance leaders in the fruitless attempts to overthrow Hitler, gave a human face to a national long tainted by Nazism. Calling for ?a fatherland of love and justice? and pursuing the doctrine of detente with the Soviet bloc - Ostpolitik - Brandt won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971. Three years later he was brought...
...Frayn?s new play is the story of that spy, Gunther Guillaume, who made himself indispensible to Brandt and became one of his three secretaries, vetting all the Chancellor?s papers after sending copies to his bosses in East Berlin. Conleth Hill (who amused Broadway audiences as one of the two actors playing dozens of roles in ?Stones in My Pockets? three years back) incarnates Guillaume as a piggy-faced toady who can?t help admiring his victim. ?He listens, that?s his trick,? he says of Brandt. The Chancellor, impersonated by Roger Allam (the original Javert in the musical...
...Michael Blakemore?s direction gives the piece a racing pulse, as if to underline that this is a comedy of duplicity. As Frayn?s classic farce ?Noises Off? showed the performance of a play on stage, then from backstage, ?Democracy? reveals the public face of Brandt?s Ostpolitik and the inner scheming of Guillaume and the other top staffers, who are loyal but scarcely more likable. The you-break-my-neck-I?ll-break-yours pace stirs suspicions that the play is more bustling than profound. I prefer Alan Bennett?s two one-acters, ?An Englishman Abroad? (about Brit superspy...
...with James Naughton as Brandt and Richard Thomas as Guillaume. The first preview is Election Night...