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...Brook meticulously undercuts or complicates every stereotype with a welcome particularity. The crucial performance is by Film Star Brian Dennehy (Silverado, F/X) as a benevolent yet diffident Lopakhin, less a brash parvenu than a man poignantly conscious of his humble origins and clumsily trying to fit in. He is in his own way just as dreamy as Lyubov (Natasha Parry), the estate's spendthrift owner, whom he constantly upbraids for her impracticality. She ignores the impending auction of her home because any available means to "save" it would change and therefore destroy it. When Lopakhin cannot recruit...
Director Peter Brook's work in the 1980s includes an 80-minute condensation of Bizet's Carmen and a 9 1/2-hour adaptation of the Hindu epic The Mahabharata. He is probably best remembered for his 1970 A Midsummer Night's Dream, which uncovered weighty conflicts of the sexes and social classes in what had been seen as amiably airy farce. That production, gymnastic and visually abstract, signaled a revolutionary intent from the first glance. This time Brook's method is less obtrusive: though there are no sets to speak of, the costumes are in period and the air is abuzz...
Phantom of the Opera opens on Broadway to magical expectations -- and meets them. -- Director Peter Brook takes on Chekhov...
News Editor for This Issue: Julie L. Belcove '89 Night Editors for This Issue: David J. Barron '89 Emily M. Bernstein '90 Martha A. Bridegam '89 Noam S. Cohen '89 Brook A. Masters '89 Teresa A. Mullin '90 Sophia van Wingerden '89 Editorial Editor for This Issue: Gary L. Susman '89 Sports Editor for This Issue: Julio R. Varela '90 Photo Editor for This Issue: Terry R.R. Roopnaraine '90 Business Editor for This Issue: Andrew A. Sandwick '89 Copy Editor for This Issue S. Elizabeth Mitchell...
...Lorraine Toussaint's Titania, his equal in dignity and a nonpareil in languorous erotic indulgence. Bottom (Abraham) and his pals, the "rude mechanicals," are for once believable working men, unpatronizingly evoked if, alas, therefore a little less funny than usual. This Midsummer will not stand in memory with Peter Brook's 1971 landmark staging or Liviu Ciulei's 1985 war of the sexes. But it is a vibrant start to a welcome project...