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...costumes reflect today's world. Some of the young citizens carry portable radios. The conspirator Cinna comes in from the rainstorm with a wet umbrella; he carries a businessman's attache case, which when opened turns out to contain knives for the murder (one recalls the old-time gangsters who used to conceal machine guns inside violin cases). The conspirators wear three-piece business suits. The conspiracy is hatched in a cocktail lounge; Artemidorus, the rhetoric teacher, who will try to warn Caesar of the plot, has become a journalist who eavesdrops and takes notes in a reporter...
...SLOW-MOTION, as currently played, is not led up to very well, but the idea itself is stunning. This solution has the added virtue of heightening the contrast between the rationalized assassination of Caesar and the ensuing irrational mob-lynching of Cinna the poet for the crime of having the same name as one of the conspirators. The latter--one of stage literature's most horrible acts, from which mankind has yet to learn--is carried out fast and brutally: not only is the innocent Cinna stabbed, but his eyes are also gouged out with sticks, while the stage...
Opposite Directions. At first glance, it might seem as if Jacob Landau, 44, had come out of the same school as Robert Broderson, 41. In both Cinna the Poet (overleaf) and New Myth-Mine Disaster (last color page), the tortured figures look as if they were about to be torn apart...
...artists take entirely different approaches to their work. Broderson, who learned much from painting abstractions -"surfaces, various ways of using paint and the like"-starts a picture with only the vaguest idea in mind, lets it evolve on the canvas, a characteristic of action painters. Landau's Cinna was inspired partly by the Orson Welles production of Julius Caesar and partly by the brutality of Naziism in World War II. While many of the new figurative painters tend to use the figure as just another object or form, Landau is brave enough to admit to being concerned with...
...time, all Europe seemed to have accepted D'Annunzio's cruel philosophy, but he was at least willing to pay a Cinna's price and be torn for his bad verses. He survived 50 actions and almost as many uniforms-for the poet used his prestige to transform himself at will into a cavalry lieutenant, an infantry officer, a combat airman, and he conferred on himself the navy title of comandante. He lost the sight of one eye landing his aircraft and sank a merchantman from a torpedo boat. To the end he remained the most bellicose...