Word: italian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rappaccini's daughter embodies all her father's designs and more: innocently guilty, guiltily innocent, she is death in life, life in death; simultaneously poison and antidote. Despite her beauty and naivete, Beatriz is also the perversion of many myths. The forbidden fruit, she is an Italian Beatrice who leads a young man into an inferno, the Christfigure whose father shouts "My child, why have you forsaken me?" This Beatriz not only represents a reworking of past myths, she is also a symbol of moderns. As a solitary prisoner of her condition, she is doomed in her passion for another...
Dajer is the most relaxed moving on stage. More careful direction could have helped the others. Elena Gragnalia slurs her authentic Italian accent maternally, yet as the landlady Isabel, she is reduced to desultory shuffling. Ponderous pauses mar Alan Fink's performance as Dr. Rappacini. He seems to have been set out to graze in his garden, talking to his vegetative creations with no sharp sinisterness. Even if he cares for his daughter, he's supposed to be a man who is imperious if not self-deifying. Fink improves at the end to bellow like the God of Genesis...
...best quarterback in the school, you'd know his mother's maiden name, and if he was the best goalie, you'd know his favorite cereal, but he's only the best ski jumper, and since skiing gets as much recognition around here as an egg roll in an Italian restaurant, you probably don't know Dave Rand, period...
...Pakistan army and its former chief of staff. Familiar with battle scenes, he was twice captured while serving with the British Indian army in World War II-and escaped both times. He is a four-goal international polo player, and a formidable linguist, fluent in English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Urdu...
Peter McEntee sings Mozart arias and songs of the Italian Baroque Leverett...