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...Midsummer Night's Dream, the Brook tactic is amplified. As experienced, the world of a dream is nocturnal and ill-defined. Brook sets his Dream within three sharp, blazingly white gym walls. For trees, Brook gives us heavy metal coils. Bucolic imagery becomes relentlessly urban...
...show's director, Peter Brook, is a man of many devices. His chief device is to defeat the traditional expectations of the audience. His credo might be "Accentuate the opposite." This credo links Marat/ Sade with King Lear and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Do we expect actors to move naturally on stage and to speak intelligible words? In Marat/ Sade, Brook made his actors move as if walking were a stylized, agonized abstraction of motion. The actors moaned, groaned, hissed and made surrealistic animal noises. Do we think of Lear as an arrogant red-hotheaded old king...
...Many Tricks? This is not to say that Brook has violated Shakespeare. However, the incessant sportive business of the production-stilt-walking, juggling, confetti and paper-olate throwing -makes one wonder a little about the Brook who has said that in today's theater "we must open our empty hands and show that really there is nothing up our sleeves." Is he not now committed to wearing a few too many tricks on his sleeve...
Class agents are, Currier: Karen Wilson of Bound Brook, New Jersey; North: Susan Klinger of Phoenix, Arizona; South: Elizabeth Coons of Lowell and Brookline...
...artist-photographer who pictures the "nude" as an ideal form of art: Barbara Morgan's photo "Pregnant" (a pregnant woman's torso), if it had been placed next to a reproduction of Van Eyck's Eve from the Ghent Altarpiece, certainly would emphasize the classic form. So would John Brook's "Moon in Leo" if placed next to a similarly entwined Rodin couple. Next to Christine Enos' "Richard" (a man flanked by two statues of Greek goddesses) should have been placed sculpture representations of the Greek god-athlete-man. Goodwin Harding's "emulation of the classic nude in photography" should...