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...succeed in pacing themselves successfully. Such was the case in a scene from The Taming of the Shrew: Steindler, a ferocious Kate, and Hanson, as a positively alarming Petruchio, managed somehow to give the comic scene a deeply sinister overcast. A more complete success was the closing selection, Lady Macbeth's famous sleepwalking episode from Macbeth, in which Staniunas as the somnabulant homicide and Wood as her Gentlewoman gave a deeply disturbing performance. The JCR's lighting was fully exploited to create a frighteningly shadowy scene...
...They are dumb, and that is funny. When I was teaching sex-ed to the sixth grade, there were plenty of questions such as this one: "If an alien came down to Chicago and had sex with a person, what would their children be like?" This, after we finished Macbeth...
...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...
When Lady Macbeth wished to fight, to help her husband seize the throne, she said to the spirits above "Unsex me here." Today, a woman need not be unsexed, need not be masculinized in order to exhibit qualities of assertion and aggressiveness. No, we are not sending off Madeleine Albright to challenge Saddam Hussein to a wrestling match, but we are asking her to help us decide at what times we should wrestle. How tough to be in Bosnia? How to lessen the never-ending tensions of the Middle East? How to confront the emergence of China? How often should...
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...