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...hour adaptation of the Dickens novel met with a rapturous reception. In a time when many serious playwrights are hell-bent on reducing life's dilemmas to their sparest parts, panhandling for quiddity, Edgar and Directors Trevor Nunn and John Caird served up a copious celebration of life in all its wickedness and wonder. Led by Roger Rees as the callow, rigorous hero, 39 R.S.C. actors played 150 parts; they set the scene and moved the scenery; they patrolled the rafters and eavesdropped on intimacies. Everywhere in this complex living organism a sense of theatrical community was affirmed, with...
...robust rise of the dollar, which on average gained 11.4% against the world's major currencies, added to the protectionist pressures. As American exports became more and more expensive and therefore less and less competitive in foreign markets, fears of a record trade deficit mounted. A copious influx of foreign capital, some in flight from economic and political instability abroad and some attracted by the high real rates of return in the U.S., held the dollar up. As West European governments kept their own interest rates high in order to stem the outflow of capital, their economies worsened...
Instead, this exploration of the ambitions and frustrations of 26 working men and women--adapted from the 1978 Studs Terkel book, which was based in turn on copious interviews--moves ahead with unerring confidence. Director Jonathan Magaril focuses on simplicity, on mining all the emotion possible out of the script's surprisingly rich words. Though the play breaks some traditional rules of structure--building tension and plot through a series of tangentially linked cameos--and thus requires some unconventional tricks of production, Magaril cannot strictly be said to be experimenting. He knows exactly what he is about...
...Wall Street broker and weekend inventor, Allen greets his guests, and the complications begin as he recognizes a lost love. She is engaged, one member of one of the two couples who have come to visit. A "spirit lamp," with an embarrassing knack for revealing clandestine affairs, and copious quantities of wine contribute to the mixing and matching of the lovers, all or whom end contentedly mated by the film's conclusion...
...They tell us that "Law School ain't no place to be in love," and how "This legal tutoring is really neutoring." Even if we are not reduced to sorrow over their plight, these lyrics, along with the trials and tribulations depicted in the script, afford the law students copious opportunity to wallow in self-pity...