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...WINTER'S TALE, one of Shakespeare's last works, is a grab bag of genres. Three acts are tragedy, the fourth is primarily romance with comic undertones and the fifth is sheer fantasy--the statue of King Leontes'supposedly dead wife comes to life on stage. In other words, this is not an easy play to direct...
Leontes is one of those daunting Shakespearean leads that is almost impossible to pull off. His jealousy of his wife in the first three acts must grow until he loses the ability to think or function as king, or as human being. After his tyrannical madness, Leontes must reappear in the fifth act and be convincingly penitent and remorseful. He must also make credible the revalation scene in which the 'statue' of his wife, who for 16 years he has thought dead, comes to life from her pedestal...
...thinclads raced to an early lead when McNulty, the newly-elected senior class First Marshal, and Scidmore took one-two in the mile...
Embarrassed by Ramiu's one-woman show, the Crimson revved up its offense and climbed back to a 56-56 tie. Margot Long, who led all scorers with 18 points, and co-captain Caryn Curry worked well with Boutillier as the lead switched hands several times...
WHERE HAVE ALL the heroes gone? Our era's cynicism and suspicion have seen more and more former idols rudely picked off their pedestals as they fall victim to literary sharpshooters armed with innuendo and calumny. Self-annointed revisionists continue to issue one-sided tracts condemning JFK's affairs, Elvis's drug addiction, and Hemingway's latent homosexuality. To err may be human, but to forgive seems well beyond today's all-consuming passion to wallow in the filth of others--especially when that filth is a residue of the rich and renowned...