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...kind to emerge since World War II. In the past two decades alone, his oeuvre had filled eight full-scale museum retrospectives and countless one-man shows from Chicago to Paris. Large corporations like Chase Manhattan saw him as a wild pet laden with status, and commissioned huge, dull sculptures from him for their plazas. His fiercely polemical essays, long-winded but dense with aphorism, were collected in two thick volumes. (Nobody has written more eloquently in defense of illiteracy than Dubuffet; in this, as in the bureaucratic precision with which his staff kept tabs on his pursuit...
...production. Kilty litters the stage with throwaways, sight gags (a very prominent Cherub's phallus is put to some inventive uses), and blatant two-dimensional parodies. Two pedants, Holofernes (Jeremy Geidt) and Sir Nathanid (Harry S. Murphy), converse while playing a hilariously dishonest game of croquet; the clownish Constable Dull (John Bottoms) runs his bike into a hedge; the Queen of France enters in a '37 Cadillac (What is behind the ART's fascination with getting vehicles on stage?). Most attempts to include dancing in Shakespeare look forced and clumsy, even though they were prominent in the original; apparently "movement...
...blusterers with disarming exaggeration. Murphy's lisping curate is straight out of Life of Brian; I waited all evening for him to say "Welease Woger!", but it never came. Rodney Hudson plays the chamberlain Boyet with liveried style and an infectious sense of fun. John Bottoms is anything but Dull as the pinch-cheeked idiot bobby, proving once again he may be the best thing going...
...gives a suitable hokey performance as a misguided bad guy and Patrick Wayne displays a suitable honesty as the misguided good guy that the bad guys hire. There's not much to work with, though. The characters are two-dimensional, which makes things difficult for the actros and deadly dull for the audience...
...smile, "but I promise you one thing, Eternal Prince won't ever get in front of my horse." His horse was Spend A Buck. Fidgeting inside the fifth slot of the gate, Eternal Prince cocked his head left and right at every clamor and curiosity. His start was inevitably dull, and Cordero was gone. Finishing one-two, Cordero and Laffit Pincay only reconfirmed their eminence in the sport, though almost all of the other principals were extraordinary...