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There ought to be a word to describe Peking opera, but there isn't, and for a very good reason: it is unique in all the world; no theatrical or musical experience in the West is remotely comparable. It is ballet, gymnastics, circus, mime, silent movie and, to a degree, even opera...
...line in focus. She is clearly skilled at staging Russian classics, but it requires either a more imaginative choreographer or a tougher critical judgment to translate the work completely from a secure tradition to a new aesthetic setting. In the first act, an hour and ten minutes long, melodramatic mime sequences and decorative dancing compete for the viewer's attention...
MOST OF SELLARS' Inspector General understandingly subordinates the moralizing inherent in Gogol's near religious allegory to its boundless wealth of burlesque, making the play a perfect entertainment above all else. Neither Sellars nor the ART actors are shy of sight-gags; in just one extraordinarily droll mime sequence, Stephen Rowe's embarassed Bobchinsky, stranded in front of the curtain with a broken nose, loses his only companion on the stage--a cubic wooden platform that descends as he leans on it--and shuffles nervously, disconsolately offstage...
...coordinated music and arts festival in Cambridge is a logical outgrowth of the spontaneous displays of street theater, mime, and music which annually spring forth as soon as the thermometer hits 50 degrees. Four years ago, the fledgeling Cambridge Arts Council (CAC) took advantage of this spirit to create the first Cambridge River Festival, which it billed as "a citywide celebration of spring, the arts, and the people of Cambridge." By this year, the festival is a firmly ensconced tradition enjoying ever-growing support. "At this point, it would probably happen by itself," Molly Miller, acting director...
...dance and mime does not fully compensate for the narrowness of Shiels and Raymond's interpretation. Regarded merely as a nightmare, The Duchess of Malfi loses coherence and power. Though Shiels and Raymond have taken great liberties with the play--the plot is so tightly constructed that it survives. Horror after horror piles up and our interest never flags. Nevertheless, we don't believe in what happens. Bendheim's is the only performance approaching credibility. By removing The Duchess of Malfi from a gossip-ridden palace and situating it in the dark recesses of the mind, Shiels and Raymond have...