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...rehearsing the play. Two more film versions are in the works-one directed by and starring Anthony Hopkins; the other an Australian version from British stage director Michael Blakemore. And at New York City's Circle in the Square Theatre, the play has been revived once again, with Tom Courtenay in the title role...
Unfortunately, the new Broadway production is an ice crystal gone a little soft at the edges. Courtenay, a veteran British stage performer probably best known here for his film roles (The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner; Dr. Zhivago), offers a Vanya of precise but wistful enunciations, interspersed with moments of careening grandeur. But the rest of the cast is weak. Gerry Bamman overacts as the bankrupt landowner Telyegin. Amanda Donohoe (formerly of L.A. Law) looks lovely as the irresistible beauty Yelena but fails to wring any pathos from her realization that in life she has "always played a minor...
Crimson Notes: Sophomore Daphne Clark, who takes the shots off the corners, leads the team with four goals...Fellow sophomore Courtenay Benedict has one goal and five assists...Freshman Jen Bowdoin has tallied three goals, all of which have come in Harvard's victories...
Only 2:15 into the game, the Crimson earned a corner shot chance. For those that don't know, this meant that sophomore Courtenay Benedict would stand at the baseline and pass it to a teammate-with all the defenders having to run out of the goal box to set up protection...
...been working hard on corners," Clark said. "But I have to thank Courtenay and Carrie-it doesn't work without them...