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...President Richard Nixon raised his glass in the Great Hall of the People and quoted from the popular poetry of Mao Tse-tung. " 'So many deeds cry out to be done, and always urgently,' " intoned Nixon. " 'Seize the day, seize the hour...
Inspiring lines, but were they really Mao's? Maybe, maybe not, suggests China's official English-language weekly Beijing Review, which reported last week that a number of poems once attributed to the Chairman were probably the work of Chen Mingyuan, then a 29-year-old university student...
...majority of people, then, wending their way to the Adams dining hall are paying not to see whether or not the iniquitous Angelo really will get his come-uppance, but rather to see what director Doug Mao and his team have done with the text...
...surprisingly, to those who have followed the production's pre-publicity, the accent in this tragi-comedy is very much upon the comedy, and this has proved to be both the strength and the weakness of the show. Foresaking the classical approach, Mao has tackled Measure for Measure with an impish, irreverent and almost knock-about zeal which certainly provides the hallmark of the production. The problem is knowing when the comedy stops...
Perhaps the answer might have been for Mao to have thrown convention completely to the wind and to have played the whole thing for outrageous laughs. This would have been both innovative and also set a more stable tone for the production...