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True to its theme of emotional cannibalism in a dead-end society, The Cook has plenty of eating and excreting. Its characters, sad creatures swathed in Jean-Paul Gaultier couture, gorge on their own swollen hunger for sex, control, revenge. Similarly, Greenaway -- inspired by Jacobean revenge plays and Dutch masters' paintings -- stuffs the viewer with ripe images and raw language. He tests your appetite for intelligent sensation. For many it may be a daunting test, but it is worth taking. Elegant and rancid, this movie rates an X as in excellent...
Bearded and brooding in appearance, the Texas-born Wright often looks like a villain in a Jacobean tragedy. He has directed on Broadway (Pvt. Wars), off- Broadway (Vanities), and at regional stages in Washington, Dallas, Denver and . Seattle. In style and choice of plays, he suggests no major break with the Guthrie's traditions. His major effort is to enhance the status and creative contribution of actors. He wants to shift from the present resident company of 43 to a sort of extended family of 150 or so performers who will work there often but not necessarily every year...
...Journey into Night as caustic tragicomedy rather than lugubrious apocalypse. Andromache is the first offering of a seven-play season, of which Miller will direct five. With characteristic confidence in his polymathic perversity, he has assigned himself an absurdist British comedy, N.F. Simpson's One Way Pendulum; a Jacobean tragedy, Bussy D'Ambois; a Leonard Bernstein musical, Candide, which Miller says "will have more flavor of the original Voltaire"; and Shakespeare's The Tempest. Also on the roster are Reinhold Lenz's The Tutor, adapted by Brecht, and Alexander Ostrovsky's 19th century Russian comedy Too Clever By Half...
...winner for his portrayal of the jealous composer Salieri in Amadeus. Each production in Chicago has showcased the two principals and three comparably talented colleagues, Greg Hicks, Eleanor Bron and Jonathan Hyde. The stand opened with The Duchess of Malfi in a faithfully Grand Guignol rendition of Webster's Jacobean tragedy. Actors clad in funereal black moved menacingly amid the stately but decaying gray palatial sets; virtually the only color was a frequent splash of blood. The ensemble followed with an energetic rendition of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard...
ACCORDINGLY, The Changeling doesn't look or sound like a Jacobean tragedy about love, murder and intrigue. The metallic scaffolding and leather jumpsuits that comprise Michael H. Yeargan's sets and costumes could have been borrowed from an episode of "Battlestar Galactica." Brustein's characters speak their lines at breakneck speed and with near-feverish emotion to give Middleton's rhyming text the language and feel of everyday speech. No stuffy parlor play this...