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...first comedies, The Two Gentlemen of Verona lacks both complexity and freshness. The play contains the early prototypes of what will become Shakespeare's stock characters: the blunt fool Launce (Christopher Scully), who uses crass language to express his words of wisdom; the love-sick Valentine (Andrew Sean Kuan); and the ruthless backstabbing Proteus (Alice Kim). In addition, the play is full of enough concealed identities, overheard conversations and overworked puns to make a sitcom writer groan...
Overall, the play is strongly acted. Kim's impassioned portrayal of Proteus is outstanding--she contrasts well with Kuan's sappy, lovesick Valentine. Kim's scenes with Li are usually plausible, but the two actresses seem hesitant to display the physical affection called for in the script. Perhaps Li is too soft-spoken--she plays her character as a dreamy, mopey girl, one whose bold voyage to Milan seems incongruous. During her disclosure of the plan to reveal Proteus' duplicity, Li says, "Poor Proteus, thou hast entertained a fox to be the shepherd of thy lambs." This line does...
...been 25 years since a tearful Lee Kuan Yew marked the traumatic birth of his island republic by announcing that Singapore had been expelled from the two-year-old Federation of Malaysia. Singapore's 2.7 million citizens are bracing for another wrenching departure this week as Lee, 67, retires. As Lee's successor, 49-year-old Goh Chok Tong, put it, "My greatest challenge is just to maintain standards...
Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, a Cambridge law graduate who has run the former British colony since independence in 1965, makes no secret of his distrust of Western media and their influence. In a speech last week, Lee argued that TV news broadcasts, with their dramatic reports on protests in Korea and the Philippines, led to last year's Beijing student massacre. The broadcasts, he alleged, misled China's students into thinking they too could force speedy government change. As for his own government, Lee said, it "can and will insist on no foreign interference in the domestic politics...
Chia, 49, was a member of Parliament representing the opposition Barisan Sosialis (Socialist Front) when he was arrested for allegedly advocating armed struggle against the government of Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. Over the years, Singapore officials offered to free Chia, who has never been tried, if he would renounce violence. But he refused, maintaining that he had never espoused it in the first place. Last May Chia was sent into a bizarre internal exile on Sentosa, a tiny tourist island just off Singapore's main isle. He is * allowed visitors and free run of the island, where...