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While this purist attitude strains the cast and audience endurance to the limit, it somehow manages not to spill over. With the unfortunate exception of Romeo's sidekicks Benvolio and Mercutio (Kate Levin and Jeannie Affelder), almost everyone -- even the servants saddled with endless forced Elizabethan puns --manage to speak in natural tones. Silver as Juliet stands out particularly in this respect, somehow projecting both the terrified innocence of a thirteen-year old and, gradually, the woman's depth of commitment and tragedy Few Juliet's have matured so convincingly...
...turned kleptomaniac two days month, the mother who threw her baby out into the snow. It was in Reader's Digest, she had a hormone disturbance, love is all chemical I want it to he over, this long abrasive competitions for the role of victim. It's like an Elizabethan tragedy or a horror movie. I know which ones will be killed...
...Atwood does more than just rail against the ugliness of human relations. Her willingness to confront the seamy side of men and women's behavior makes her forgiving. By acknowledging human shortcomings they become less acute Ultimately. Atwood sees the elements of Elizabethan tragedy in modern life, you have to descend to the bottom of the wheel of fortune before you come...
AFTER THREE AND A HALF HOURS of wildly tangled mistaken-identity games, comedy routines within routines, and intemperate Elizabethan wordplay, the salient emotion one takes away from the Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theater's "Love's Labor's Lost" is surprise that the play is so good. No sooooo good--everything is relative, and it is doubtful that any theater company in the world could keep the parts of the melange of verbosity and near-interchangeable comic types from dragging--but far better than most directors who attempt the play would attest...
...Elizabethan language being what it is, it is unavoidable that the audience emerge from any production of this play with stiff limbs and moderately glazed eyes. But the Loeb production certainly does not inspire the question the play so frequently brings to the departing viewers' mind--why, with all the plays of Shakespeare available, the company had to pick this baggy anomaly to produce...