Word: cheeked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Adventurous directors love to bend and spindle Shakespeare to make contemporary points. Declan Donnellan, of Britain's Cheek by Jowl company (on display in Brooklyn this fall), uses the most traditional means -- a bare stage, an all-male cast -- for radical ends. Does cross dressing lead to tatty camp? No, it's an apt way of addressing the crises of eros and identity at the heart of the play, where comic ingenuity escalates into poetic rapture...
...production of Shakespeare's As You Like It by the British Cheek by Jowl troupe, which returns this week to the Brooklyn Academy of Music after a triumphant visit in October, is one such theatrical epiphany. It does more than revive the play; it revives one's faith in the theater as a place to weave magic...
...story line revolves around a love triangle involving a murder, stakeout, sentencing and jailing, but all of it is done in a tongue in cheek way. Each character is a subversive look at a stereotype. In examining such molds as the Kelly girl, the private detective, the codependent lover, the bobby socks-poodle skirt blonde, Hughes also assesses such images and then creates new ones. Accents and body language are mixed and transferred by the skilled actors. The subtext is continually brought to the surface and reconciled with the text or else dismissed, but in this case Hughes is responsible...
...patient who lives in his hometown of Fernandina Beach, Florida, praises him for seeing her through a difficult pregnancy: "He held my hand through the whole thing." Yet Britton could be brusque and abrasive with clients he inherited from Gunn. Nor did he believe in turning the other cheek: he packed a .357 Magnum and talked freely about his willingness to shoot abortion protesters if they trespassed on his property with intent to harm...
...grunge and rap in later years. But its initial force was diverted quickly enough into the more market-friendly notion of new wave: here came the dance-beat torching of Blondie instead of the primal screeching of the Sex Pistols, red sneakers instead of the safety pin through the cheek. The ground was well prepared for the appearance of MTV in 1981, which ushered in the age of video rock stars, such as Duran Duran and Adam Ant, for whom the right look might outweigh all else. The perverse machinery that would simultaneously make hipness hard to avoid and harder...