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Last weekend, without anyone paying much attention, Gov. George W. Bush trimmed Sen. John S. McCain's (R-Ariz.) 29-delegate advantage to 3 before a single ballot had been cast in a single state. Chalk one up to vestiges of the era of "gunboat diplomacy...
...quite imagine how the project got off the ground; who would fund an idiosyncratic collaboration between untested Nouvelle Vague director Jacques Demy and French jazz composer Michel Legrand? Chalk it up to the experimental spirit of the '60s or the audacious spirit of the French New Wave. But what has emerged is unlike any other dated document of the time. It's astonishing how fresh it remains. It's like a fantastic kiss--it never gets old. Even the first time I watched the movie (with a smile of such shocking wideness that my roommates thought I'd gotten married...
This immensely amusing scene is just one of the moods evoked in the course of Mee's play, now running at the American Repertory Theatre. "Full Circle" is loosely based on a 13th-century Chinese fable called "The Chalk Circle," but it owes even more to the "The Caucasian Chalk Circle," a play by early 20th century German playwright (and confirmed communist) Bertholt Brecht. Rather than simply updating Brecht's version for a new millennium, however, Mee undermines it by setting his story during the fall of the Berlin Wall...
...play, the Chalk Circle is drawn, and the child (a doll) must crawl toward the mother of its choice. But instead of two mothers, we here have three: the rich Pamela, the loving Dulle Griet, and Christa (Laura Knight), the returned biological mother. The play ends on a note of grim irony that seems at odds with the other happy-ending aspects of the conclusion. While the irony has been present throughout, it isn't evident enough at the very end to leave the viewer feeling particularly moved. Nonetheless, the play successfully manages to be both entertaining and intellectual, always...
Davis says he often yearned to stick a piece of chalk in the student's mouth...