Word: middleton
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Cary Clark, the school's counsel, declined to specify what irregularities were noted by the independent attorney, Jack Middleton, former president of the New Hampshire Bar Association. Middleton was not at his office Wednesday night and could not be reached for comment...
...Changeling: by Thomas Middleton, performed by the American Repertory Theatre, Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St., Cambridge, Tuesday-Sunday at 8, weekend matinees at 2, through...
Director Robert Brustein--who is the ART's Artistic Director, Professor of English at Harvard, and theatre critic for The New Republic--has performed major surgery on Thomas Middleton's seventeenth century tragedy to resurrect it for the Loeb stage. Brustein's version of the neglected Jacobean play is a kind of amalgam with the elegance of neo-classical tragedy, the gritty flow of nineteenth century Naturalism and the thematic revelance of Modernism, yet it still manages to cohere...
...Jacobean tragedy about love, murder and intrigue. The metallic scaffolding and leather jumpsuits that comprise Michael H. Yeargan's sets and costumes could have been borrowed from an episode of "Battlestar Galactica." Brustein's characters speak their lines at breakneck speed and with near-feverish emotion to give Middleton's rhyming text the language and feel of everyday speech. No stuffy parlor play this...
Even the text itself has undergone significant alteration at Brustein's hands. To highlight Middleton's thoroughly contemporary theme of oppressed womanhood, one third of the original text has been excised--including the entire subplot written by Middleton's collaborator William Rowley, dealing with feigned madness and giving the play its title character...