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...Antelope Valley's skinhead fringe Finnegan sees a new kind of despairing descent of the white middle class intersecting on the way down with upwardly mobile blacks moving into the valley. In the black community of New Haven, bitterly set cheek-by-jowl with the neverland of Yale, Finnegan allows himself a generalization about "structural unemployment--the cruelest edge of the American economy's deindustrialization and increasing reliance on untrained, insecure labor, and a close cousin to the pervasive undereducation in public schools in poor and working-class neighborhoods...
...villagers: they've all seen Riverdance; Bob Avian's choreography has the heavy-footed agility of that hit Irish dance show. The choral harmonies do have a vaulting magnificence, as 30 or so voices pump out Schonberg's anthems. But director Declan Donnellan (who, for his own Cheek by Jowl troupe, staged a superb As You Like It) can't make the drama sing. Guerre is big; it should have been grand...
Adventurous directors love to bend and spindle Shakespeare to make contemporary points. Declan Donnellan, of Britain's Cheek by Jowl company (on display in Brooklyn this fall), uses the most traditional means -- a bare stage, an all-male cast -- for radical ends. Does cross dressing lead to tatty camp? No, it's an apt way of addressing the crises of eros and identity at the heart of the play, where comic ingenuity escalates into poetic rapture...
...production of Shakespeare's As You Like It by the British Cheek by Jowl troupe, which returns this week to the Brooklyn Academy of Music after a triumphant visit in October, is one such theatrical epiphany. It does more than revive the play; it revives one's faith in the theater as a place to weave magic...
...housing lottery system of non-ordered choice has brought students of all stripes into what was once the bailiwick of black-clad artistes. In the dining hall, gov now lunch check by jowl with literature concentrators...