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Despite the failure of the production as a whole, there are a few bright spots in the opera. Musical director David Eggar deserves a great deal of credit for adapting Berg's music for this production. By using a synthesizer in addition to the traditional orchestral instruments, Eggar retains the haunting, hypnotic spirit of Berg's composition while updating the music for today...
Remember David Eggar's name, because we know you will be hearing it again. What we don't know is whether it will be for playing the cello or the piano. A national prizewinner in both instruments, Eggar has also sung in 500 performances at the Metropolitan Opera in New York...
...directors in the world. His earliest success--They Came From Within--updated George Romero's Night of the Living Dead by making the villains brown, turdshaped creatures who neatly slipped in any out of any available human orifice. In The Brood, his 1979 entry starring Oliver Reed and Samantha Eggar. Cronenberg realized a brilliant and original idea. Doctor Reed develops a radical psychological treatment that enables his patients to manifest, physically, their traumas and neuroses. Eggar, his star warped patient, grows living, breathing children off her chest. These faceless perversions, products of her illness, band together to destroy anyone...
...Cort's Max, while as wide-eyed and clumsy as Buster Keaton, fails to add the vibrant punch that his mordant Harold could not escape. Nor does love interest Samantha Eggar provide anything more than good, solid acting...
...these parts--Narizzano's smooth camerawork, Cort's lurching educator, Eggar's rough-hewn farmer's wife, and the dozen kids who make up Max Brown's class--is a satisfying whole, not unlike My Brilliant Career. The settings are different, of course, and the heroine in search of a career is now a hero, but the tone of each film is the same: gritty, vivacious, and indomitable...