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...hero, Senya (Derek Jacobi), is an everyman-nobody. He has no job, is supported by his wife and browbeaten by her mother. He decides to kill himself...
Senya does not keep his rendezvous with destiny, but Derek Jacobi does. Best known for the title role in the TV series I, Claudius, Jacobi makes his debut at Broadway's ANTA Theater a thumping virtuosic triumph. He is unfazed even by the giant Junglegym of a set. Toward the end of the play, Senya pleads with the faceless state: "Give us the right to whisper." This production usurps the right to drone...
Works of Purcell, Saint--Saens, Hindemith, Jacobi, and Arban--Norman Birge, trumpet; David Sogg, bassoon; and Peter Lurye, plano; Cabot Living Room., South House...
Schulz holds a doctor of theology degree from Erlangen University, and for years was a Lutheran pastor at St. Jacobi Church in Hamburg. Since 1971 he has preached that the existence of a personal God is "a comforting invention of human beings." Schulz also wrote a book, Is God a Mathematical Formula?, and, in answer to the title question, he answered no but declared that God emanates somehow from "physical and chemical processes." Prayer? Mere "self-reflection." Life after death? Wishful thinking. Jesus? A normal man with good things to say who was later glorified into...
...biggest surprise in the first four plays is Richard II, which is sometimes cited as one of Shakespeare's weaker works. Under the direction of David Giles, however, it takes on a new meaning, becoming an almost contemporary story of power used and abused. Derek Jacobi, who was seen last year as the hero in I, Claudius, portrays the childishness as well as the majesty of Richard, who tells "sad stories of the death of kings." No one has told them better, and Jacobi now should be numbered among the best actors in the English-speaking theater...