Word: knave
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spotlight. Bob Kim, in the role of the judicial King, does a splendid job, projecting a magnificent aura of power. As the mother of the wayward Count, Natasha Kruger similarly carries herself strongly and proudly, while adding a classy feminine quality to her role. The self-proclaimed fool and knave of the show, Alden Stock '96, provides hilarious comic turns throughout the play--whether he is performing gymnastic stunts or swing-dancing with members of the audience, he is sure to amuse. And in the performance of Tom Brown '99 as Parolles, the haughty coward shines through clearly. The rest...
...blindingly original premise that modern life would appear pretty silly if described in Elizabethan English. When Constance, who soon slips into iambic pentameter like all the other characters, describes someone as a creep and Desdemona is mystified, she says absent-mindedly: "Creep--it's colloquial for 'base and noisome knave...
...chess match of check and mate -- and mate and mate. The Marquise (mezzo Frederica von Stade, in top form) is an archmanipulator who wields her sensual allure like a double-edged sword, encouraging her lover's worst instincts as she wreaks her revenge on society. Her foil, the unapologetic knave Valmont (the splendid baritone Thomas Hampson), is a cynical womanizer who makes the fatal mistake of falling in love with one of his victims, unwisely and too well. Who is worse? The amoral rake who seduces and abandons without remorse? Or the wily temptress who sends her dark knight...