Word: emotionated
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"I'm chewing on Tums," Jackson said at the post-game press conference. "I don't show much emotion on the exterior, but inside I'm a mess."
So too 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...
Her reputation follows close at her heels, however, and bring about her ultimate unhappiness and death. The nobility of spirit and purity of emotion with which Verdi infuses her character amplifies the tragedy of her situation and taps into the universal sympathy of the human beast.
This simple plot, combined with some of Verdi's most beautiful and expressive music, makes it one of the most operatic of operas, one of the most eloquent magnifications of human emotion through the use of music.
Liat Kaplan's direction creates a slick synchronicity between characters, keeping the emotion at a dramatic rather than melodramatic level. In places, this results in woodenness, but it is kept to a minimum even in the potentially static second and third acts. Even in the most turgid moments of the...