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...ballerinas, losing the battle to gravity. It's monstrously difficult to pull off, and hardly worth the trouble for all but the most natural clowns. No one in The Three Cuckolds betrays any flair for knockabout comedy, so it's hard to understand why the director. Michael S. E. Kaplan, chose to haul out this tedious commedia del l'arte piece and stage it, of all places, on the Loeb Mainstage, which swallows up all but the most stylistically assured productions...
...Kaplan has made a game stab at filling the space. He had meticulously choreographed a procession of clever unsurprising slapstick turns, solemnly executed by actors who signal the coming of a collision, pratfall or somersault the way a five-year-old holds his nose before diving off a high board. Rather than using the company's limitations and giving us a slopping, ingratiating evening, the director offers us a museum piece--slapstick embalmed...
NONFICTION: American Dreams, Studs Terkel -Faces in My Time, Anthony Powell -Gjon Mili: Photographs & Recollections -The Hour of Our Death, Philippe Aries -Paper Money, Adam Smith -The Terrible Secret, Walter Laqueur -Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan...
NONFICTION: Ambition, Joseph Epstein American Dreams, Studs Terkel Gjon Mili: Photographs & Recollections ∙ The Terrible Secret, Walter Laqueur ∙ Paper Money, Adam Smith ∙ Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan ∙ Ways of Escape, Graham Greene
...Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan...