Word: nickelodeons
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...CURTAIN RISES, someone is pounding out Scott Joplin and vaudeville tunes on the upright piano in the corner. Credits appear like titles from a 1910 silent movie: "Executive Producer--John Cooper; Director--Evangeline Morphos; Set Designer--Martin Shofner." The Hasty Pudding Theater has been transformed into a nickelodeon for Measure for Measure. the premiere production of The Harvard Shakespeare Theater. It's an extraordinary and ambitious first appearance...
...Take the nickelodeon, for instance. It is a stylish device, as are all the devices of this production, but besides relieving the tedium of set changes, what does it do here? Why impose a device from a cliched art form of the early 20th century on a chosen 19th century setting of a 16th century play...
Unfortunately, these themes of hypocrisy and sincerity, sex and love, so strongly introduced, are left dangling. The 19th century setting is as much an imposition and as little a genuine idea as the nickelodeon. Part of the problem is Jennifer Marre's interpretation of Isabella. If only it had been a little less inexplicable, more seemingly affected by the thought of sexual violation or even by the threat of her brother's execution. Isabella is not necessarily selfishly chaste; especially in the setting of this production, Marre might have been directed to make evident that it is a different sort...
Route 28 turns north in Falmouth and runs through North Falmouth (the home of the Nickelodeon Theater, the finest movie house on the Cape), Otis Air Force Base and then Bourne. I can't remember anything in Bourne that I have ever wanted...
...Nickelodeon. Bogdonavich--meaning, bad. At the Central Cinema Two, daily at 7. With Bedazzled...