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...production does not tear down Diego Rivera (William Rhodes) to prop up Frida Kahlo, nor does it make oppression center stage. In life, Kahlo was above that, and this production of her life also rises above simplistic analyses...

Author: By Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, | Title: Play Depicts Art as Life Source for Mexican Legend Frida Kahlo | 9/24/1992 | See Source »

...jury is still out on whether Diego Rivera stifled Kahlo's work--often it seems like it was Frida herself who took her work the least seriously, who treated it the most frivolously...

Author: By Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, | Title: Play Depicts Art as Life Source for Mexican Legend Frida Kahlo | 9/24/1992 | See Source »

...Frida, by contrast, is less intense about her work, more intense about the world and living in the world. Anguished by the poverty and desolation she sees in Mexico, she cries, "Heaven should be for those who go through hell on Earth." In her own life she enumerates that which is worth living for: "Love, sex, cigarettes--and tequila." She speaks of her own obstacles with humor and wit. "I Prefer to suffer the Catholic way--publicly...

Author: By Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, | Title: Play Depicts Art as Life Source for Mexican Legend Frida Kahlo | 9/24/1992 | See Source »

Helen Schneider's Frida is stunning and exhibits amazing range: tempestuously angry, hurt and betrayed, laughing and cavorting, she lays claim to the stage, the spotlight, the audience. Even when the stage is crowded with shadow puppets, or wounded deer, or an assortment of Rockefellers and Fords, it is Schneider who is magnetic and maintains a mythic aura...

Author: By Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, | Title: Play Depicts Art as Life Source for Mexican Legend Frida Kahlo | 9/24/1992 | See Source »

...enamored of. "The offstage operatic duets sung by Karen Hale and Alba Quezada are stirring, although occasionally difficult to understand because of the melding of Spanish and English tones. Costume designers Ann Roth and Robert de Mora have created beautifully evocative costumes: magnificent Mexican native dress for Frida, Spanish scarves and shawls for village women and pastel pinks for the stodgy American wives...

Author: By Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, | Title: Play Depicts Art as Life Source for Mexican Legend Frida Kahlo | 9/24/1992 | See Source »

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