Word: leone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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EVERYTHING ABOUT MEXICAN PAINTER Frida Kahlo was high drama. In pain all her life after a streetcar accident, she battled drugs and despair, had a tumultuous marriage to muralist Diego Rivera and conducted affairs with women and men, including Leon Trotsky. FRIDA, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival, adds to her stature as cult figurine. Mexican musical motifs blend with spoken monologues and lyrical, character-defining songs, while masks and puppets recreate the magic realism of her paintings. In the title role, Helen Schneider conveys the radiance and explosive fury of the woman whose...
...most powerful scene in the play, wonderfully directed by Phoebe Wray, in which Leon Czolgosz tells of the torture of slaving over a hot oven in a bottle-making factory, but cannot bring himself to release his anger by breaking a bottle at a bar, is almost too painful to watch...
CONTRIBUTORS: Robert Ajemian, Kurt Andersen, Bonnie Angelo, Laurence I. Barrett, Jesse Birnbaum, Jay Cocks, Mary Cronin, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Hays Gorey, Pico Iyer, Edward L. Jamieson (Consulting Editor), Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Dennis Overbye, Edwin M. Reingold, Richard Schickel, Gavin Scott, R.Z. Sheppard, John Skow, Martha Smilgis, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias...
CONTRIBUTORS: Robert Ajemian, Kurt Andersen, Bonnie Angelo, Laurence I. Barrett, Jesse Birnbaum, Jay Cocks, Mary Cronin, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Hays Gorey, Pico Iyer, Edward L. Jamieson (Consulting Editor), Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Dennis Overbye, Edwin M. Reingold, Richard Schickel, Gavin Scott, R.Z. Sheppard, John Skow, Martha Smilgis, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias...
WRITERS: Howard G. Chua-Eoan, Martha Duffy, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, John Elson, Christine Gorman, Paul Gray, William A. Henry III, Leon Jaroff, Richard Lacayo, Michael D. Lemonick, Eugene Linden, Lance Morrow, J. Madeleine Nash, Bruce W. Nelan, Richard N. Ostling, Dennis Overbye, Jill Smolowe, Claudia Wallis, Richard Zoglin...