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...first got a taste for the gypsy life," he explains. During his school years he became interested in acting, and one of his first stage appearances was in a student production of "The Merchant of Venice." He continued to do much Shakespeare, acting in "Hamlet," "Richard the Third" and "Julius Caesar" after he joined Michael Croft's National Youth Theater at the age of 16. The members of this stage company were teenagers -- or "young toughs and lay-abouts," as he calls them -- drawn from all over England, who spent their "hols" acting and producing plays throughout England...
...these days. She is in the midst of performing a trilogy by Donizetti that began last season when she sang Elizabeth I in Roberto Devereux, and will be rounded off next year when she sings Elizabeth's mother in Anna Bolena. The whole project, as City Opera Director Julius Rudel says, amounts to a sort of Elizabethan Ring...
...Harrisburg Seven will likely be a sedate enterprise compared with the yammering chaos of the Chicago Seven trial two years ago. There is the Rev. Philip Berrigan in place of the irreverent Abbie Hoffman, and an earnest, reserved Judge R. Dixon Herman instead of the choleric, opinionated Judge Julius Hoffman. Defense Attorney Ramsey Clark bears no more resemblance to William Kunstler than the placid Pennsylvania capital does to busy Chicago...
...turned over to the South Vietnamese in 1970, the signs in English that used to hawk steambaths and massage parlors have been only partially covered over by messages in Vietnamese tuned to ARVN needs and tastes: cheap gifts, laundry services and sinh-to, the Vietnamese variation of Orange Julius...
Coming after a disastrous Hamlet, Julius Caesar is a refreshing reminder of how good the OCSC can be, and usually is. Many purists will be offended by the rehabilitation of Caesar but the effect is to make this the most interesting production of this play in a decade...