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DaimlerChrysler has also paid the price for its mismanaged global ambition. Two successive chief executives, Edzard Reuter in the 1980s and Jürgen Schrempp in the '90s, aggressively pursued visions of international growth and diversification and financed them by tapping into the cash hoard Mercedes had built up over decades. In the process, the company, which once prided itself on its provincial roots in Baden-Württemberg, acquired a worldwide scale and presence in both cars and trucks--and bought some absolute dogs. That included a near bankrupt household appliance company (AEG), a teetering airplanemaker (Fokker) and a 37% stake...
...Edzard substitutes corporate intrigue in the City of London for the back-stabbing court, and life on the streets, down-and-out, for the rural idyll of the play. This revision provokes not only the normal irksome inconsistencies of contextual changes, like holding a boxing match in the foyer of the Bank of England, or finding shepherds and their flocks roaming the squats of central London, but also more serious thematic contradictions. In the play, the Forest of Arden represents our collective escapist fantasy--the dream of a life free from complication or care. Homelessness does not play the same...
...Edzard does convey the tone of the play masterfully. Despite the hearty doese of romance, "As You Like It" revels in a misanthropic melancholy. The faceless, charmless interior sets of lobbies and corridors convey a barren, hollow grandeur, whole the bleak urban wasteland of rubble-strewn lots and disused machinery has an equally oppressive effect. London's grey skies and wan, pallid bussinesspeople, seckled with liverspots, contribute to the gloom...
...does Edward Fox's portrayal of Jacques: he wanders the set with a listless, patrician air, jowls drooping, mewling and puking depressing reflections from that hangdog aristocratic face of his. But Edzard relies most heavily on the central romantic couple, Orlando (Andrew Tiernan) and Rosalind (Emma Croft) to set the tone. Rosalind, disguised as a boy, meets Orlando pining for her love. Befriending him under her false indentity, she forces Orlando to court her as if she were Rosalind. The pair play this twisted charade as an agonizing process, reducing both of them to emotional ground beef. Here they...
...because of the emoitve power of Shakespeare's writing. His plot is quite simple, and a little forced--but his themes are universal and enduring. Both the difficulty and the reward of Shakespeare lie in the language; giving the narrative or the context a facelift won't change this. Edzard ultimately fails to make Shakespeare any more accessible because she concentrates on making the easy part easier (with limited success), rather than working on the real challenge of bringing his language to life for a modern audience. Shakespeare is hard to sell and worth selling precisely because there...