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...views of power, Shaw's and Ibsen's, in Ontario...
...power is the unifying theme of the two plays that opened Canada's annual Shaw Festival at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, last week-but not power for its own sake. The central figures in both works, one by George Bernard Shaw and the other by Henrik Ibsen, are secular Salvationists who dream of bettering mankind's lot. One thrives; the other is doomed...
...should damn a college drama society for producing an enormously difficult play. Although Anthony Shaffer's thriller Sleuth may not challenge a company the way a play by Ibsen or O'Neill does, in some ways the risks are even greater. In a naturalist classic, after all, the director and cast can strive for emotional honesty to compensate for a lack of maturity or finely-honed technique; Sleuth, however, is an exercise in style, and it demands a display of brazen theatrical exhibitionism, a roaring hamminess firmly entrenched in technical precision. The actors must savor Shaffer's dialogue, sputter...
...classics, the Boston Shakespeare Company presents an offbeat Much Ado About Nothing, January 18-21 at 8 and Thursday and Saturdays at 8, until February 26; Henry IV Part I is also offered, Fridays at 8 and Wednesday, February 1. Ibsen's Hedda Gabler runs through February 11, Wednesday and Friday at 8 and Saturday at 5 and 8:30, at the Lyric Stage...
...praise of his acting. Both men are united in a fear of the poverty of Ireland and a desire to conceal their peasant origins. Both loathe the modern currents of their times. Melody despises the Jacksonian rabble just as Tyrone reviles such (to him) modern playwrights as Strindberg and Ibsen...