Word: les
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...associate director at the Royal Shakespeare Company back in the early '80s, Howard Davies earned his stripes by staging such Bard classics as Macbeth and Troilus and Cressida, along with occasional modernist ventures like Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Good. But whenever he suggested doing the work of American playwrights like Tennessee Williams, he was out of luck. "Nobody wanted to revive them," says Davies. "I was banging on doors, and no one was interested...
Willy Loman, Miller's famously doomed salesman, is also brought down to size a bit on the British stage. In the National's Death of a Salesman, Willy is played by Alun Armstrong (a veteran of musicals like Les Miserables as well as the original cast of Nicholas Nickleby), whose tidy little mustache, hangdog expression and Brooklyn accent anchor him firmly in the dreary everyday. Armstrong's Willy is a small man, too downtrodden even to rail with much conviction. It's an elegant production, the dominant stage image a tree in full blossom, with a broken trunk...
...theme park a short drive from Paris. Fill it with happy, smiling faces, quaint rides and catchy, inoffensive music and wait for the cultured, sophisticated Europeans to flock to it. It was absurd, a sure failure. Imperial America at its most foolish. Five years ago, Parisians smoking cigarettes at Les Deux Magots sniggered into their cafe au laits as Disneyland Paris opened. No way would the land that invented Existentialism, perfected ennui and made dourness hip go for the hyperactive cheeriness of Mickey Mouse. Ce n'est pas possible. For a while, it seemed like they were right...
...Clive, the bland boyfriend (Les Welter, an MFA candidate in theater arts), he helps the conflict roll along, siding with the daughter only to fall to her wrath later for inquiring about personal details. His character seems entirely superfluous, and does not really contribute to the development of the play...
DIED. MARIA CASARES, 74, grande dame of the French theater; of undisclosed causes; in La Vergne, France. A commanding presence, Casares took on nearly every classic female stage role, from Lady Macbeth to Medea--and played King Lear to boot. Her films include Les Enfants du Paradis, Orphee and La Lectrice...