Word: cartier
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...iconoclastic school of Dadaism, photography parallels the development of fine arts rather than emulating it. Henri Cartier-Bresson and Frederick Sommer bring out visual puns of sexuality and tradition in their early 20th century images. In "Valise d'Adam" (1949) Sommers constructs a metaphorical expulsion of Eve from Adam's flesh: a blond baby doll emerging from a menagerie of fabricated objects in the form...
...most women. It is a life in which bemuscled, race-car-driving aristocrats pursue glamorous heroines and in which couples with little need for frequent-flyer mileage cavort from grand Euro- capital to grand Euro-capital, proving that love blossoms best in those cities where a branch of Cartier may be found...
...patrons of the salon are a hetero geneous group Mrs. Shubert is a Boston socialite--they used to call her Muffy at Radcliffe; Edward Lawrence (Will LeBow) is an antiquarian who conducts business with a famous pianist living in the same building. There is Mike Thomas (Mark S. Cartier) a geeky guy with a bowtie who opens his eyes really wide whenever Whitcomb touches him suggestively and Nick Rossetti (Michael Fennimore) who walks into the salon to the sound of "Macho Man," construction hat on. The play revolves around the interaction of these disparate comic types...
Directed by Jacques Cartier at the Huntington Theatre through February...
Director Jacques Cartier uses the sets ably and has done a good job of staging the play--the tea scene between Gwendolen and Cecily is especially imaginative. But when such a good play is often dragged down by a plodding pace and often tepid performances it is usually the director's fault. While this production is still worth seeing (particularly for those who have never seen Earnest before and who won't know what they're missing) stronger direction might have shaken up the cast a bit more and made it a production worthy of wilde...