Word: counterpointing
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...AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER has moved Alvin Epstein's shimmeringly baroque Midsummer Night's Dream downtown, but no artistic departures accompany the geographical transit. This is the same intricately woven, counterpoint-heavy production that played Brattle Street last spring; there are cast changes, some for the better and others not, and some cuts, but the principles of ensemble and musicality that guide Epstein's conception of the play have shepherded it successfully to the Wilbur stage...
...characters into the forest of Arden, where the complex interplay of nearallegorical characters assumes the aspect, at times, of a philosophical inquiry. A banished duke holds court over a pastoral golden age in the forest; his men pluck the lute, sing, and sleep while Jaques the melancholiac provides counterpoint to their contentment. Into their hermetically enchanted realm bound a pair of lovers, whose parabolic approaches give Shakespeare an excuse to examine the nature of obligation and fidelity in love...
...tune with the country's needs and wants. It spoke to what once was and is no longer. But even many of those among his listeners who never admired Kennedy or his brothers may miss the sense of strength and certainty and hope that the family represented. Thus, in counterpoint to his ringing words, there was a sadness for many on the convention floor for what might have been, for a political party that has had to change direction, to find new answers and perhaps even a new purpose...
...Point-Counterpoint...
...Banchetto Musicale, as a means both to lengthen and to enrich Shakespeare's play. The backhanded slap at Mendelssohn's romantic score, with its pianissimo fairies and ebullient wedding march, makes clear even before the lights go up the director's vision of A Midsummer Night's Dream: counterpoint over harmony. If the music doesn't bring that message home, Epstein has added a brief masque to accompany the overture: before a Paolo Uccello-like tapestry, the helmeted figures of Theseus and Hippolyta have it out with swords (Hippolyta wins...