Word: hamlet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...protruding from his head, and muses on mortality nine different ways. Philip Glass visits a bakery to buy some bread, and the scene is replayed as a chanted Glass opera. In a cage, three monkeys grouse at their typewriters, condemned to stay there till one of them pounds out Hamlet. A fellow at a restaurant can never get what he wants unless he orders something else, because he is in a twilight funk called "a Philadelphia." In The Universal Language, Ives' warmest, newest sketch, a woman with a speech impediment enrolls in a course for a jabberwocky tongue that only...
...Missouri River had torn the Everses' mobile home from its moorings and dashed it against a utility pole. Cedar City, a hamlet of fewer than 500 people where Tony was born and where the couple had married, was totally deluged. "Everything was wiped away," Missy told Lewers. "The whole town was gone." For the next three months the couple and their sons Mark, 9, and Corey, 2, stayed in motels and apartments across the river in Jefferson City...
While perhaps 200 million coastal dwellers are now prosperous, and tens of millions of township and village enterprises are thriving, 90 million hamlet dwellers in the interior are still stuck in subsistence farming and near feudal conditions. "Beijing has no extra money to spend on us," says an official in northern Shanxi province. "We were told we would be helped after the reforms took off in the south." Much of the north is still waiting. A businessman from Gansu province, where a quarter of the population is illiterate, complains, "We will always be 10 years behind Shenzhen." At least...
There's nothing regrettable about a revival per se. Indeed, it's usually regarded as a positive sign when the commercial theater finds room for Hamlet or The Master Builder -- although even Rodgers and Hammerstein did not confuse themselves with Shakespeare and Ibsen. The pleasure can be the same whether the effort is a shrine built to the original, as in 1990's unimaginative but impeccable reproduction of Fiddler on the Roof, or a piece of fey revisionism such as 1992's cartoon reconception of Guys and Dolls, which turned into the hottest ticket in town and helped spark this...
...know Hamlet by seeing it once--there's so much there," he said. "That's part of what's behind this...you're not overcome and consumed by the plot of a production...