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...rambunctious Mikado is set in modern-day Japan...
...obvious racism. Chicago, home of the biggest and most notorious modern-day political machine, is hardly the city for a political morality play. With patronage, personal connections and city contract money at stake, there is little that is black and white about Chicago mayoral politics. Chicago is the only big city without a non-political civil service. The stakes here are jobs and power, not abstract principles. Victory means gravy, while defeat means unemployment...
...well-precedented reason--lack of interference. In the last year or so the BSC has done a fair amount of experimenting with the different ways a director can mangle a script in the interests of originally; their director's Romeo and Juliet was set mysteriously and superfluously in modern-day Belfast, and Bill Coe's Memlet offered the truly creative line-reading "To be, or not?... To be!" But now the fever seems to have broken. Caesar, which will run repertory with Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, demonstrates the virtues of an almost lost art: the straight...
...then Reagan's audience could begin to see a halo glow faintly over his head and hear the rustle of feathers above. He warned against "modern-day secularism" and marched holier than thou into the forbidding swamps of abortion and teen-age sex. Reagan's righteous arm held high the Declaration of Independence ("mentions the Supreme Being no less than four times") and our coinage ("In God we trust...
...motives. It is these conflicts and motives that Tourner caricatures in this play written during Shakespeare's heyday. The frivolity of court life, the superficiality of the nobility, and their preoccupation with pleasures of the flesh draw the playwright's satire. But unlike with Shakespeare's plays, a modern-day director is hard-pressed to give the vengeance play's intentionally superficial characters any meaning for a modern-day audience. The result, under the direction of Andrew Atkinson, is an exaggerated performance by pasteboard characters...