Word: modernish
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...show, produced by Britain's Royal National Theater and staged by its artistic director, Richard Eyre, is modernish -- 1930s -- in its dress and visual vocabulary. It is meant to evoke 20th century memories ranging from Oswald Mosley's English fascists to the Ceausescu and Marcos regimes. Yet it is entirely faithful to the politics and psychology of Shakespeare's text. No production in memory has better evoked the terrifying instability of this buccaneer world. Rather than the embodiment of motiveless malignity, Richard is simply a skillful and ruthless practitioner of the techniques of his backstabbing times. While invested by McKellen...
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