Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point of view, to be sure; no play mounts itself. Yet exciting interpretations almost always result not from invention but from rediscovering something the playwright meant to say. That kind of respectful reading underlies Rumanian Expatriate Lucian Pintilie's eclectic, visually daring version of Ibsen's The Wild Duck at Arena Stage in Washington. The play is frequently seen as a domestic melodrama in which well-intentioned people cause calamities; the climactic suicide of a dreamy adolescent girl is generally staged with perverse beauty, as a sentimental symbol of how adult reality crushes freedom of spirit. Pintilie, who brings...
...Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and in 1985 at Arena. In that reappraisal, Pintilie awakened contemporary audiences to the play's political dimensions, its defense of civil liberties in a nation beset by conspiracies and denunciations. In Pintilie's free but faithful adaptation of The Wild Duck, the playgoer finds himself immersed in a world of coarse, rapacious robber barons who believe the disgrace in any swindle lies in getting caught. The most pitiable figure imaginable to them is someone who has fallen from luxury. Thus the privation of the ruined Ekdal family and the shame they feel at taking handouts...
...addition to promoting greater inter-religious harmony, the new Disneyland would provide badly needed jobs for an economically depressed area. Poor beggars like Muammar Khaddafy would no longer have to idle away their time in fruitless militarism. Instead, he could get a job dressing up as Donald Duck or running a concession stand selling snap-on Mickey ears for yamulkas...
...Mary Baldauf triple and walks to Lisa Rowning and Sharon Hayes loaded the bases for Harvard, and Trisha Brown brought one duck home with a single up the middle...
Ever since 1912 when Leon L. Bean did a mail out to every Maine hunting license holder to sell hunting boots, Bean's has been selling outdoor gear in Freeport. The soles peeled off of ninety of his first 100 pairs of now ubiquitous duck boots, according to company lore and advertising, and he gave the buyers back their money...