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...reviewed. If indeed Finnegan's Wake is a masterpiece, it is rarely recognized as such on the first reading. It takes many re-readings in order to follow the elusive psychological themes. Indeed, in film, the only way to give an audience this "review" is to leave signposts, cinematic Hansel and Gretel breadcrumbs in an attempt to give a frame of reference. And this is the killing blow to a film which already takes place within the world of magic and symbol. It completely removes the film from life, takes it out of the realm of emotion...
...Hansel and Gretel are abandoned by their father and stepmother in a forest. Snow White is pursued by an assassin sent by her stepmother, the Queen, and then by the Queen herself. Fairy tales are, in fact, full of parents and stepparents with a murderous bent toward kids. So why do children continue to read them? Manhattan Psychoanalyst Dorothy Bloch, 66, believes she knows why: the small child has an "almost built-in" fear of infanticide, which these hoary horror stories help expunge...
Boston University opera workshop--opera scenes selected from Bartered Bride, Hansel und Gretel, Hin und Zurueck, and others. At 855 Comm. Ave., Boston...
...house or room or a neo-Bayreuthring that rotates on its axis to create changes of scene. The new Rigoletto (cost: close to $300,000, neither cheap nor extravagant) is built around a leaning tower that suggests not so much Pisa but Babel and, at times, the land of Hansel and Gretel. At the start it represents the palace of the Duke of Mantua. For the second scene it becomes the house where the jester Rigoletto has hidden, or so he thinks, his daughter Gilda from a menacing outside world. And so on. The tower is, alas, not a very...
...Rosanne Hansel Altoona...