Word: casting
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...Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale,” directed by Curt L. Tofteland and produced by Sara Stackhouse. Though there were scenes of great humor, emotional depth, and rapturous melodicism—it is Shakespeare, after all—the cast (occasionally) and the production team (almost always) were generally not up to the script they had to work with...
...this bear was imaginatively realized by the cast, who huddled together and devoured Antigonus before turning into a herd of sheep in the next scene. The moment is one of many in which an idea from some cast member seems to have shined through Tofteland’s clusmy direction. Another was the blessing given by the citizens of Bohemia, a wiggle of the fingers used to great comic effect...
...gave a stunning performance, particularly in the second act. Clearly well rehearsed and inspired, the corps was adept at ensemble timing and precision—especially during the pirouette sequence in the final moments of the ballet. Also striking was the professionalism of the children who made up the cast of forest insects. Clad with wings and antennae, they were not only adorable but also skillful dancers, executing clean leaps and turns with elegant simplicity...
...over. But any sense of show business as usual ended when one of the theater managers came by to collect passports and identity documents. The Syrian government is in the process of tightening its generous residency laws for Iraqi refugees, and the fear of deportation looms larger over the cast than a newspaper critic with a grudge...
...cast has other burdens and traumas in common with its audience. "The killers in Iraq make no exception for artists, writers and actors," said one man. "All of us have lost a relative." Indeed, radical fundamentalists in Iraq long ago started targeting actors as members of an immoral profession. Mahdi, who is 43, left his family in Iraq in March of 2006, and he dares not return. A satellite news channel once erroneously reported his demise, a warning, he said, that he is marked for assassination...