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Adventurous directors love to bend and spindle Shakespeare to make contemporary points. Declan Donnellan, of Britain's Cheek by Jowl company (on display in Brooklyn this fall), uses the most traditional means -- a bare stage, an all-male cast -- for radical ends. Does cross dressing lead to tatty camp? No, it's an apt way of addressing the crises of eros and identity at the heart of the play, where comic ingenuity escalates into poetic rapture...
Director Declan Donnellan has a gimmick: all the characters are played by men, as in Shakespeare's day. Designer Nick Ormerod has built a pristine set -- white walls, with green streamers for the Forest of Arden. In themselves, these elements are neither radical nor necessarily helpful; every English public school has a tradition of same-sex actors, and every penny-pinching little theater company leaves the scenery and props to the audience's imagination. But here the ideas seem like masterstrokes. They strip away the academic barnacles that too often make an evening of Shakespeare feel like a final exam...
...attendant shepherds and fops have a whirly, burly charm, and the bucolic maids (notably William Cates' Phebe) suggest Benny Hill on his very best night. But even these performances are never mired in the wink-wink-nudge- nudge of condescension to either Shakespeare or the audience. As Donnellan and Ormerod proved in their version of Angels in America at the National Theatre, no play is so weighted down by metaphor or message that it cannot be made to sing and soar...
...annual event has increasingly attracted more and more foreign competitiors, said Mike Donnellan, a regatta official. "This is particularly true with respect to Eastern Bloc countries," Donnellan added...
After the bishops launched the economics project in 1980, Archbishop John Roach of St. Paul, who was then president of the hierarchy, gave Weakland the sensitive chairmanship because of his high standing among colleagues. The four other bishops who joined him: Atlanta's Thomas A. Donnellan, Peter Rosazza of Hartford, Conn., George H. Speltz of St. Cloud, Minn., and William Weigand of Salt Lake City...