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...Duchess of Malfi, currently showing on the Loeb mainstage, is a solid production of an extremely disturbing work. Now, I like to be disturbed--Disability, Escaped, Blue Window and House of Blue Leaves are among the better plays I have seen performed at Harvard--but this went...
...wasn't good enough for Neil Rudenstine--he cut out at halftime. But this may have been an ominous mistake for the future president of Harvard, because this production of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi deserved to keep most people planted in their seats...
...Duchess of Malfi's dramatic content could have easily been drowned out if the actors had muddled the Shakesperean-like dialogue. But every actor, specifically the Duchess, elucidated the complex prose and made it both stimulating and laudable...
...Nicholas Nickleby and Strange Interlude, and Ian McKellen, a Tony winner for his portrayal of the jealous composer Salieri in Amadeus. Each production in Chicago has showcased the two principals and three comparably talented colleagues, Greg Hicks, Eleanor Bron and Jonathan Hyde. The stand opened with The Duchess of Malfi in a faithfully Grand Guignol rendition of Webster's Jacobean tragedy. Actors clad in funereal black moved menacingly amid the stately but decaying gray palatial sets; virtually the only color was a frequent splash of blood. The ensemble followed with an energetic rendition of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard...
...sweet reserve to her playing, and a sense that despite her temporary befuddlements, her Anne is on the way to becoming a woman of genuine, and entrancing, character. Having her conduct her relationship with Edward while they are involved in a drama club production of The Duchess of Malfi puts them in logical touch with a group of eccentrically orbiting minor characters and imparts a resonance, narrative richness and a range of human interest extraordinary to find in a film by young people...