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...assassination of a dictator and the breakdown of human relationships are the subjects of the very serious play being performed at the Ex this weekend. The first English production of the Austrian play The President, written in 1971 by Thomas Bernhard and translated by director Gizelle Faulkenberg's mother, will emphasize the traditional themes of decadence in a very modern way. Performances are tonight through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. with a Saturday matinee at 3 p.m. Free tickets are available at the Loeb box office at noon the day before the performance...
...will of the people," is desperate to have Antigona confess. He realizes that if she does not relent, he is bound to execute her and, by doing so, is bound to create a martyr, a rallying point for the forces that might topple him. Creon sends Antigona's mother, priest and friend to her prison cell. They pressure her to act more ladylike, to resume her privileged position ("We were prosperous, respectable," her mother says) and to confess--if only for the sake of her life. Yet Antigona persists. Although at its periphery often excessive and out of control...
...times." She colors her idealism with a matter-of-fact sarcasm that does not diminish her goodness. Ravenal is tough and human; her lines could be rhetorical harangues but she delivers them with unaffected directness. Confronting other characters, Ravenal is less effective. At times her passionate responses to her mother and friend seem overly dramatic--mainly because the visitors offer little to respond...
Susan Chira, as Antigona's mother, has the most difficulty. She gives a performance that undoubtedly is heartfelt but unconvincing even to herself. Director Vicente Castro could have helped by providing her with a chair so she could sit rather than gesture lamely in pantomime while Antigona speaks to the audience. A chair might have provided action in a long and static scene. Cynthia Wondowlowski also lacks color as Antigona's friend Irene. For a woman who once braved the state and who now betrays her friend, there is too little rancor, fire, or even ashes...
Sensible Shoes. In effect, Lacey has treated Elizabeth as a minor character in a Jane Austen novel. An "unassuming mother of four" who dotes on a "quiet life in the country surrounded by horses and dogs," she tramps over for tea in her sensible shoes and serves modestly to swell a scene or two, mostly by making other people look brilliant. But how to turn her into a heroine...