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...life by destroying his lie-based success. Nina Bernstein, one of the few bright points in last spring's Mainstage production of Agamem non, brings energy and sensitivity to a role which could otherwise degenerate into the story of an honest, but plodding pioneer. Bernstein's Lona becomes the focal point of nearly every scene she appears in as she dances and gestures. Lona is the breath of fresh air needed by her old home town...
This perhaps is best taken and clung to as the focal point of the play: the particularly modern form of personal inauthenticity, of plastic and degrading relationships, of--yes, once again--alienation. Rauch obliterates most of the political alienation which Auden ties to the malaise of the individual. The director instand emphasizes the distorted manner in which the Victorian sexual logacy has been incorporated into...
Empty space, in fact, becomes one of the focal points for this strange succession of happenings, lending the voyage from scene to scene more excitement, more obvious purpose, than the scenes themselves. The latter do seem in fact to concern a a man named Woyzeck (the name rings repetitively through the various modes of address, a ghostly refrain), a soldier, who has been forced to eat nothing but peas for months in the interests of science. Who shaves his Captain's beard daily in return for disjointed grilling on philosophy and morals. Who kills a woman...
...Mont., in 1968, he has not mined the region until now. His Montana has none of the romantic magic of Zane Grey's glowing hills. In Nobody's Angel the sky is harsh, the mountains formidable, the rivers icebound. The town of Deadrock (read Livingston) is the focal point of this austere landscape. Here station wagons are parked where horses once were loosely tied...
...ideological nature and security of the State of Israel; the rights of the Palestinians to political representation and the concurrent controversy over the role of the PLO. Despite the large part played in the Middle East conflict by varying Arab interests and J. S. and Soviet influences, the focal point of the nation has become the Palestinian nationalist movement and Israel's responses to this apparent threat. It is clearly an issue which cannot be sidestepped on the road to peace: it has already proved to be the stumbling block to the progress of the Camp David agreements...