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Perry, now a Stanford professor and co-chair of the Harvard-Stanford Preventative Defense Project, said the U.S. needs “new tools to deal with new times.” He stressed the need for full compliance with the Nunn-Lugar Act, which encourages the dismantling of weapons of mass destruction...
...fortuity of Ibsen revivals generated two excellent productions: Trevor Nunn's staging of "The Lady from the Sea," starring Natasha Richardson, and Adrian Noble's "Brand," with Ralph Fiennes. (I missed Patrick Stewart in "The Master Builder"). Fiennes, his thin voice willing itself to fierce majesty, is ideal as Brand the mad priest, so devoted to saving people for God that he destroys them. The piece ends with a literally moving coup de theatre that ... well, go see for yourself. Cheapest round-trip New York-London airfare...
...Lady from the Sea" has a plot that's high Harlequin: a dark and stormy night, a chronically sensitive young wife aching for a strong rogue to free her from the cage of marital propriety - Nunn brought his patented clarity of emotional line within a vigorous visualization. And Richardson virtually channeled her mom: she had all the intensity, and nearly the magic, of Vanessa Redgrave in her early radiance. This show has closed, but there's plenty else to see in London, and when you get there you'll find cheap, cozy bed-sits for under $100 a night...
...DIED. LORD SHAWCROSS, 101, Britain's chief prosecutor of Nazis at the Nuremberg war- crimes trials; in Cowbeech, England. Shawcross also prosecuted William Joyce, a Nazi propagandist better known as Lord Haw-Haw, and Klaus Fuchs and Alan Nunn May, physicists convicted of giving atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. He later lamented that the Nuremberg trials didn't deter Idi Amin and Pol Pot from their own "odious crimes...
...experiences with sub-par productions of his first two left him "very disillusioned with the world of opera." But this time, he had the best midwives in the business: conductor Simon Rattle, temporarily back in London from his post as director of the Berlin Philharmonic, and renowned director Trevor Nunn. With top tickets selling at a third of the normal Covent Garden top price of $240, the six performances of Sophie's Choice sold out immediately. Maw's first exposure to Sophie's Choice was the film, but his libretto is almost completely faithful to Styron's prose...