Word: eddison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fled the country in March only after troops loyal to Mugabe had ransacked his house and killed his driver. "I ran away from my grave," declared Nkomo. "I did not leave Zimbabwe for a safari in Europe." While Mugabe listened impassively, Minister of Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Eddison Zvobgo berated Nkomo for embarrassing the government, and ridiculed as "old hat" letters that Nkomo had sent from London proposing talks to solve Zimbabwe's internal problems. Then, to the surprise of most of the M.P.s present, Zvobgo announced that, because the government was not "vindictive or divisive," he would withdraw...
While Mugabe continues to call for reconciliation, there are rumors that Nkomo may yet be charged with subversion or even treason. Nkomo says, a bit disingenuously, "I am only trying to protect my people and therefore do good for my country." The sharp-tongued Eddison Zvobgo, a minister in the Mugabe government, says Nkomo's real trouble is that he suffers from "power-denial psychosis." An Ndebele proverb puts it another way: "The beast is without power." Against the strong political base of Mugabe and the might of his army, Nkomo has little leverage except perhaps the capacity...
...must have undergone judicious cutting, changes are, it could without bleeding take a good deal more. But the pervasive freedom from fuss enlivens the script's excesses simply by showcasing them. The bare black stage, with two garden swings intelligently breaking the monotony, does not distract; neither do Martha Eddison's very effective costumes, for the most part just baggy bright smocks with cumberbunds for the nobility, or the occasional sharp-edged modern choreography...
...players, each major-minor role is played in stellar fashion. Stephen Moore makes of Bertram's boon companion, Parolles, a pompous, endearing rogue and braggart, a mini-Falstaff. The countess's clown (Geoffrey Hutchings) is Lear's fool, in wit though not in pathos. And Robert Eddison, as adviser to the King, is an elegant paradox, a wise Polonius...
...Brown has spruced-up the longer songs with clever shticks at one side of them: language-lab subtitles for a scene sung in Italian and a caricature-in-process to accompany a song about feminine perfection. For another, it's never tiresome just to stare at Martha Eddison's stylish costumes; they have a funky, continental allure rarely seen outside the pages of a fashion magazine and a few tables in the Adams House dining hall...