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Rumanian-born Liviu Ciulei, 62, is the epitome of a world-class director: he has staged films, operas and plays in some five languages and ten countries. Since 1981 he has been artistic director of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and has burnished the company's reputation for accommodating mainstream audiences to unconventional, often fiercely intellectual interpretations of the classics. Ciulei will leave next year to move to New York City and will become a free-lance director. For his final Guthrie season, he has restored the company's tradition of rotating repertory. Among the current offerings: Cyrano de Bergerac...
...Ciulei's vision, which downplays romance and sees courtship and marriage as raw struggles for power, owes much to Brook. But the insights into the characters, the reasoned resistance to happy endings and especially the mesmeric visual imagery are Ciulei's own. From the first moment, this Dream shows itself to be more about grim realities and revelatory nightmares. The captive Amazon Queen Hippolyta (Lorraine Toussaint), garbed as a soldier and coiffed with a Grace Jones-style Mohawk, stands mute yet defiant as the guards of Duke Theseus (Gary Reineke) surround her. They tear off her uniform and toss...
...them onto Polonius' head with spit. Between scenes he would pounce on a piano or indulge what friends josh as chronic hypochondria by relaxing his back in a vibrating armchair, transported from his book-lined apartment in an Upper West Side brownstone. Kline and the orderly, meticulous director Liviu Ciulei clashed so often that Producer Papp joined in the final staging...
Bergman also teamed up with classmate Susanna Lingman to earn a victory at No. 1 doubles. Harvard’s No. 2 doubles team of junior Sanja Bajin and freshman Alexis Martire soundly defeated Penn’s Raluca Ciulei and Shelah Chao, 8-4, giving Harvard a doubles point that would sometimes prove elusive as the season continued...
...Martire (H) def. Ciulei...