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...conceived and directed by Michael Kahn, never fails to hold the attention. It is, however, essentially a wilful distortion and cheapening of Shakespeare's play. Last season Kahn, with daring and imaginative updating, achieved the seemingly impossible by turning the inferior and (I thought) no-longer-viable Love's Labour's Lost into a dazzling success. Now, having been promoted by the Festival's top brass to the post of Artistic Director, the 30-year-old Kahn has applied the same daring and imaginative updating to a play that is simply not sufficiently malleable. He has, in effect, turned...
...same time, however, the NDC has been building a broad voalition of white middle class suburbanites, academicians, and students from the old McCarthy movement with progressive Negroes (or less militant blacks, if you will), the Chicano (Mexican-American) community in the Southwest, leftish labour members, and Indians from the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy's supporters. It is a highly decentralized operation--mostly on a state level, but often on a community level--which in some ways resembles the conservative Republican movement of the carly 1960s...
STRATFORD, CONN.--Well, I never thought I'd live to see the day: Love's Labour's Lost without a yawn. The production that Michael Kahn has directed for the American Shakespeare Festival is outrageous, irreverent, and scurrilous. It is also--almost throughout its entire 130 minutes--inspired, captivating, over-whelming, brilliant, vigorous, dazzling, uninhibited, stunning: a total theatrical triumph...
Furthermore, Love's Labour's Lost is the most topical of all the plays. In it Shakespeare parodies the euphemistic style of John Lyly (who is today not exactly a widely read author), and lampoons a number of the verbal fads and affectations of the late sixteenth century. It is stuffed with what its leading character, Berowne, describes as "Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise./Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation,/Figures pedantical." And there are hundreds of puns, many be-labored mercilessly. How many of today's theatregoers relish extended puns on long-obsolete terms for a male deer of the second...
...parts of the play's concluding song are sung by two different trios drawn from the comic personae. And finally the stars can be seen twinkling in the darkening sky, as the object of love's labour is not lost, but only postponed...