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...Kennedy once described his hometown as an 'improbable city of political wizards, fearless ethnics, spectacular aristocrats, splendid nobodies, and underrated scoundrels.' "The aforementioned now rub elbows and knock heads in a novel that once more demonstrates the author's passion for place and his skill as a literary magician, says TIME's R.Z. Sheppard. "How else should one describe a writer who moves effortlessly through time and who can summon ghostly characters from previous books to play full-blooded roles in his latest work?" Readers familiar with Kennedy's earlier work in 'Ironweed' and 'Billy Phelan's Greatest Game' will...
...used to think that all kids had the same silly, dream-like goals. I wanted to be an astronaut, a magician, a dancer, a baseball player, a movie star. I was wrong. The feeling I get from many here is that they have known exactly what they were going to be long before I had learned to talk. Medical journals and Heidegger-perfect reading material for the potty. All kidding aside, having one's life planned out at such early ages, whether by oneself or with the "help" of one's parents, is an unfortunate way to live. To assume...
...figurative magic, juxtaposing Jungian soul searching and sweeping myth with minutely detailed portraits of Canadian provincialism. In fact, Davies was one of the first writers from that country to develop an international following. The best known of his works is the Deptford trilogy, which tracked the lives of a magician, his manager and a one-legged schoolmaster...
...brave new world" so crucial to any production of "The Tempest." He does this by appealing to his contemporary audience's idea of the exotic, as well as to a modern conception of "the other." In the middle of the scenery sits an imposing but unidentified concrete structure. The magician Prospero is dressed not like a sorcerer but instead as an African medicine man. And the music incorporates elements of rap and opera. "Ultimately," says Daniels, "I want to see how one comes to understand the experience of 'the other.'" He does this in part by setting Prospero's experience...
Perhaps the greatest strength of this unconventional production of "The Tempest" is Freeman's strong conventional performance. Prospero is a magician exiled from his dukedom who seeks revenge. When the men who betrayed him are near the shore of his island, he sends a storm to wreck their ship and bring them all onto the shore. As he plans revenge, oversees the engagement of his daughter Miranda (Jessalyn Gilsig) to Prince Ferdinand of Naples (Scott Ripley) and foils Caliban's plot against his life, Freeman evokes every doubt, conviction and emotion Prospero experiences. He is temperamental and harsh with...