Word: isabella
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...right and enforce the law with absolute impartiality. Measure for Measure examines how inadequate this machine-like justice is in the face of human ambiguity. Angelo's first victim is to be Claudio, a nobleman arrested for getting his wife-to-be pregnant. When Claudio's almost cloistered sister Isabella pleads for her brother's life before Angelo, she arouses the interest of the judge "who scarce confesses that his blood flows...
Angelo and Isabella alone in the cast delve into their characters, and mine the subtleties of their scenes. Kirsten Giroux's dark-voiced Isabella is the best performance of the evening--she makes this occasionally self-righteous, all-too-correct role warm and sympathetic. James Kitendaugh plays Angelo as a thoughtful, principled man with too many layers of civilization smothering his emotions. As his control begins to go, the fidgeting he uses to signal his tense repression first accelerates and then disappears altogether, as he gives in to his desire...
...Graduate Touring Program and Nightmusic Series offer an alternative of sorts for concertgoers. This fall, the Touring Program features eight concerts by vocalists, chamber players, brass quintet and a violinist. The concerts take place at such locations as the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Walpole State Prison and the Goethe Institute of Boston. Today at noon, soprano Sheila Gayle sings music of Handel and Debussy at the Federal Reserve, 600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, and the Romanul Chamber Players perform at the Gardner Museum, 280 The Fenway, Boston, at 4 p.m. All of the concerts...
...trial created an enormous stir, which Director Claude Chabrol has depicted - there are angry crowds and balladeers singing laments in the street outside the courthouse - but his main interest is in the spoiled innocence of Violette. She is played with astonishing virtuosity by an extraordinary young French actress named Isabella Huppert. Violette's twisted mind seems to have been truly monstrous. The incest story was pure invention. She got her parents to swallow poison by telling them it was medicine. Yet something in her character was capable of generating sympathy. What we see in Actress Huppert's portrayal...
...MAIN FAULT in the play lies in the direction. Even as 19th century Vienna does not give the production a cohesive structure, so over and over again, the director misses opportunities for immediate dramatic power. In the last act, when Isabella seeks vengeful justice from the Duke, she perfunctorily genuflects as the addresses him. That little gesture steals significance from the way she breaks down and later begs the Duke on her knees to show mercy to Angelo. And this is only one of many thoughtlessly staged scenes...