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Barrett also criticized Silber's opponent, William F. Weld '66. "I am struck by Bill Weld's aloofness. He runs a minimalist campaign" whose only theme is the need to reduce the size of government and lower taxes, the senator said...
...This minimalist approach succeeded last year in Hill's bleak staging of Samuel Beckett's Endgame, because it reflected the barrenness of Beckett's verbal landscape. But in a show about the foibles of human emotion and the intricacies of deception, more natural and sympathetic direction is required. The audience may laugh at the characters in Betrayal, but Hill ensures that we will never empathize...
Then Shapiro began to move toward the human figure. This note is struck in the very first object in the Baltimore show, made in 1974, which from across the room (or in reproduction) looks like one of the abstract scatter pieces done by minimalist sculptors in the '70s -- Serra or Barry Le Va -- but is in fact an image of human dismemberment. Look closer, and the bits of wood turn ! out to be an artist's mannequin that Shapiro broke up in a fit of anger -- "I pulled it apart and just threw it around the room," he says...
Director Andrei Belgrader wisely adopts a minimalist approach towards this play, recognizing that its success depends on acting and the use of dialogue rather than any inspirational staging. The set is appropriately barren, and the difference of agreement between the two characters is highlighted with a minimum of movement. One clever touch is Belgrader's decision to spice the 18th Century satire with modern references and expletives; they serve both to shock the audience into attention and remind us that the script has meaning for contemporary society. Another is Shalhoub's coughing jag, with its reference to Topol's song...
Glass went on to add Satyagraha (1980) and Akhnaten (1984) to Einstein to form a trilogy of music dramas. Last week in West Germany, Stuttgart's State Theater held what amounted to a minimalist retrospective by staging all three as a complete cycle for the first time. For Glass, for Stuttgart and for new music, the cycle made for three extraordinary evenings in the theater. It was also, in a curious way, a farewell to a style that has changed the face of modern opera...