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Have you ever traveled 6,000 miles to attend a single cultural event? I did, last month. The event was "The Coast of Utopia," a trilogy of Tom Stoppard plays directed by Trevor Nunn for the National Theatre in London. With a running (or ambling) time of 9hrs.30min, a cast of 30 adults and 15 children, and an elaborate physical production, "The Coast of Utopia" was unlikely to be mounted anywhere else. I had to be there...
...actress finds Blanche's seductiveness in her musical voice, the practiced irony of her inflections, the remembered gentilities of a Southern belle long since cracked, her light-footed stroll through the huge, moving set in Nunn's sumptuous, pristine production (in the auditorium next to the one holding "The Coast of Utopia" at the National). Nunn is to stage-direction what Sinatra was to lyric-singing: He's a great reader, finding the undertone in every phrase and pause in the text, and translating that understanding into space, time and gesture. Because Essie Davis impresses more as Blanche's sister...
...classics, retooling them and throwing them back at us. And lately they have been stumbling. Acclaimed director Nicholas Hytner, soon to take over London's National Theatre, couldn't solve the problem of how to turn Sweet Smell of Success, the film-noir classic, into a Broadway musical. Trevor Nunn's production of Oklahoma!, which won raves in London, failed to wow the critics in its Broadway debut. The problems can't be totally explained by union rules that usually prevent British casts from making the trip over here. The question is, Have the British lost their theatrical touch...
...Rodgers and Hammerstein classic, Hytner's dark-hued production of Carousel (seen on Broadway in 1994), was a beautiful piece of work. But the wide-open frontier of Oklahoma!--while rendered just as beautifully onstage in burnished golds and blues--seems like foreign territory. It's not that Nunn's production puts too much emphasis on the story's "dark" side (de rigueur for any British director remaking a sunny American classic). It's that both the light and the dark elements don't seem sincerely felt--with a leading couple (Patrick Wilson and Josefina Gabrielle) who have little warmth...
...Graveses needed political help to do the same for hemp, so Andrew went to an old family friend, Louie Nunn, a former Governor of Kentucky. If you associate hemp only with Woody Harrelson, Nunn is a jarring figure. He's a lifelong Republican. He will be 78 in March, and his major indulgences are University of Kentucky basketball and dirty jokes. But for Nunn, hemp is about economics, not the drug war. He wants locally grown hemp to be used for parts in the 1.2 million cars built in Kentucky every year. Like his allies in other farm-state legislatures...