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Looking closely at your cover illustration, I note that the oarsmen are rowing toward, not away from, the brink of the waterfall [April 6]. I hope that Cecelia Wong is not prophetic. David Cadwgan, HALTWHISTLE, ENGLAND...
...going over the edge. Maybe the crew were concentrating too much on their bonuses (their exit strategy), or maybe they just climbed into their boat the wrong way (conditions of entry). It's time we learned how to row boats again: backs facing the front and pull hard. David Jonnes, MARSEILLE, FRANCE...
...That left the guys who couldn't get dates no option but to see Fighting, which is essentially Fight Club without Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, David Fincher or any pretense of artistry or ambiguity. Fighting is to Fight Club what its star Channing Tatum's one previous hit, the 2006 Step Up, was to every poor-boy-with-a-dream dance movie before it, from Saturday Night Fever to Save the Last Dance - which is to say, a worn retread, but with more bare-knuckle brawls. No matter: young guys' collective movie memory can be counted in the months...
...also turns rhythmically on and off to further demarcate transitions. As if to the drums of war, the play marches to an internal beat, and its fury of personal devastation crescendos to the climactic shattering of the play’s illusions. The set design under the direction of David Reynoso is precise and meticulous in its details, and most importantly, it works. A string of mutilated doll parts hangs ominously over the milieu of the stage. The rubble of the setting is a constant reminder of war’s devastation. Significantly, this scene of ruin is not specifically...
...company was founded by Montreal street performers in 1984), Cirque has done a show like the early ones. Kooza, from the Sanskrit word for "box," is light on elaborate production values, heavy on old-fashioned circus acts: jugglers, tumblers, contortionists, high-wire walkers... and clowns. Kooza's writer-director, David Shiner, has decades of intercontinental renown as a clown-mime; and his show throws a long spotlight on three of the breed. Nice change: they're all North Americans, and they talk - no Marcel Marceau winsomeness here. Surprise: they're fast, raucous and pretty funny...