Word: landau
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...faithless little old Cressida's motto seemed to be: More scarlet than thou, O'Hara. Pandarus oleoed between the lovers, with slicked-down hair and a Burgundy dressing gown, and made his last exit carrying a carpetbag. "As I worked on the play," explains Stratford Director Jack Landau, "it became clear to me that the division was not one country against another, one part of society against another. It's a culture divided against itself-in effect, a civil...
What prompted Adolf Eichmann's wartime offer of 1,000,000 Jews in exchange for 10,000 trucks? Was it pity for Jews? "I want a clear answer," said Judge Moshe Landau...
...will continue to answer questions until I tell you to discontinue," Judge Landau corrected...
...Landau has not tried to present a tragedy. All the editors and commentators who place Troilus among the tragedies clearly have no idea what tragedy really is. Troilus is comedy, but very sour comedy. Kenneth Tynan recently seconded Orson Welles' view that Shakespeare was suffering from venereal disease during the period in which he wrote Hamiet, Troilus, and Measure for Measure. Such hypothesizing is dangerous; for that way madness lies. Yet it is true that these plays all present sexual relations as vile and tainted...
...side-line role of Thersites functions as the Chorus in the play. For all his vilifying and blaspheming, he is the person who sees the truth and states it, that man had succumbed to warring, lechery, idiocy, and hybristic vainglory. Donald Harron is unforgettable in the part. But Landau may be unwise to make him pick his nose, hawk into a spittoon, and mix coffee cups with the slop; it is not easy for an audience to acknowledge the wisdom in the speech of a man with such repulsive personal habits...