Word: kamarei
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern do nothing. They spend their time waiting, watching others, now sucked into the hurly-burly of the Danish court, now spat out. Director Arzhang Kamarei generates this hopeless tone from the outset: to the thundering strains of Mission Impossible theme song, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern race furiously round the stage on hobby horses. This wild dance builds to a galloping climax as the music ends, and then...nothing. As always, R and G rush around achieving diddly squat...
Since the drama consists mainly of dialogue, the director has less scope for innovation than in other plays. But Kamarei introduces some interesting touches. During one of Rosencrantz's monologues, Broder acts out scenes of brutal bloodletting with a sword and armor. The fine blocking and motion in the silent interchanges between our two heroes indicate Kamarei's talents...
...Kamarei plays Claudius (Galen Weston) as an effete poseur complete with absurdly exagerrated regal costume. His amusing interpretation suceeds thanks to Weston's magnificent mincing. Similarly, Sarah Tuttleton pulls off a fantastic performance as a panting, moaning, breast-rubbing nympho Ophelia...
...philosophical problems--"Is freedom chaos?"--they call on the "audience" for help. To their rescue comes Doris Levine, a blonde, boppy philosophy student from Wellesley, played with convincing ditziness by Isabelle Hurtubise. In the course of the action other fatuous students are called to the stage: Lorenzo Miller (Arzhang Kamarei), the pompous playwright, Trichinosis (Joel Pulliam), another Greek who invents the ridiculous deus ex machina to save the play and a regal but spacy Queen (Elizabeth Price) who strolls in with a roast beef sandwich. Woody Allen himself even phones in a few times to give advice to his characters...