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...differing approaches of directors Rik Engelhardt and Laura Shiels are clear, so much so that the play almost becomes two works performed side by side. The first is an insinuation of the evil, suggestive elements of the play, the second a warm and spirited lunge for the comic and humane. The opening and closing scenes, and the dance sequences, bear the brunt of this first approach. The balance of the play, particularly the mischief of Puck, the play-within-a-play, and the scenes between the four lovers are superb, carefully crafted instances of the second...
...piece on a film partly about music would be complete without some reference to the soundtrack, and Baskin's score makes the task easier. While most of the songs sound like a second-rate version of Laura Nyro with a jazzy twist and a male voice, the occasional poetic outbursts in his lyrics do draw attention. Baskin seems to be treading on all too familiar ground...
Sophomore captain Laura Brown sees good things on the horizon this year. With Princeton, last year's champion, hurt by the graduation of its star skipper, she thinks the 'Cliffe can make its move to the head of the fleet by blowing past perennial rivals Tufts and MIT. Behind Brown and "A" Division skipper Bam Mack, the women will face their first test at a New England Women's Intercollegiate Sailing Association invitational regatta at MIT tomorrow morning...
...play is the duo of King Henry and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, whose love/hate relationship fuels the dramatic action. Henry keeps Eleanor locked up during most of the year, but at Christmas-time he lets her out, and that's when the warring begins. Thomas Champion and Laura Bartell are well-matched as the estranged couple, who enjoy picnicking on each other when they're not feeding on themselves. Champion carries off the complex part of Henry--torn between his lusts of the moment and his fierce passion for immortality--with an enviable ease. His inflections, his mannerisms, even...
...young ladies from the Eastchester School, Elizabeth Justice, Cheryl Feldman, Patricia van Buskirk and Laura Campo, are the scheming debutantes who amuse themselves with Jane Austen novels, croquet and garden parties while all the time secretly wishing for men. Their hopes are answered with the four forest rangers, Josh Goldhaber, Kent Griswold, Mike Fancher and Jon Weinberg. The rangers try to come across as boyish Keystone Kops, which is fine, but their image would be more effective if they were all clean-shaven...