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...peerage and run for the elected House of Commons. Nor, in all likelihood, would he seriously consider giving up his seat in the House of Lords for the sake of a constituency should the opportunity present itself once more, ventures Harvard Professor of Government Roderick MacFarquhar--who held a Labour seat in Commons--and other associates of Carrington. "He's an efficient, no-nonsense politician who never attempts to fool people by verbiage, but he's perhaps [indifferent] to the feelings of the public: he goes...
There was some argument about the plot of Love's Labour's Lost, and she suddenly cut the matter to the bone. Raising her hand high and proud, she proclaimed "Shakespeare's no fool...
Taylor dates the poem to between 1593-1595, the same years during which Shakespeare, then around 30, wrote "Romeo and Juliet," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and "Love's Labour's Lost...
Throughout Love's Labour's Lost, the comic, rather than the romantic, leads pull this show through. Geidt has been around English departments long enough to pillory tweedy blusterers with disarming exaggeration. Murphy's lisping curate is straight out of Life of Brian; I waited all evening for him to say "Welease Woger!", but it never came. Rodney Hudson plays the chamberlain Boyet with liveried style and an infectious sense of fun. John Bottoms is anything but Dull as the pinch-cheeked idiot bobby, proving once again he may be the best thing going...
...recent PBS production of Titus, Andronicus (a.k.a. the Elizabethan Chainsaw Massacre) showed, a gutsy director can turn even Shakespeare's faults into virtues. Had Kilty focused his attention on energizing Labour's silliness with some more madcap excess, a merely promising production might have grown into greatness. As this is Kilty's second shot at the play, maybe the third time will do the charm...