Word: ophelia
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Silje Normand's Ophelia is marvelous -- fragile yet painfully aware of the politicking around her. Her sweet, sad songs during her mad scene are heart-breaking...
...just released CD Swamp Ophelia is Indigo Girls' most complex and satisfying album. They started off performing at coffeehouses and on street corners, and their early songs were naked and direct -- just the two of them playing guitar and singing folk music. Swamp Ophelia is more ambitious, with waves of orchestration, African drums, accordions and trumpets; Saliers even plays a long electric-guitar solo. "I think this record is more polarized than our other records," says Ray. "There are more extremes going on. Electric and acoustic. Loud sounds and soft sounds...
...just released CD Swamp Ophelia is Indigo Girls' most complex and satisfying album. They started off performing at coffeehouses and on street corners, and their early songs were naked and direct -- just the two of them, playing guitar and singing folk music. Swamp Ophelia is more ambitious, with waves of orchestration, African drums, accordions and trumpets; Saliers even plays a long electric-guitar solo. "I think this record is more polarized than our other records," says Ray. "There are more extremes going on. Electric and acoustic. Loud sounds and soft sounds...
Kamarei plays Claudius (Galen Weston) as an effete poseur complete with absurdly exagerrated regal costume. His amusing interpretation suceeds thanks to Weston's magnificent mincing. Similarly, Sarah Tuttleton pulls off a fantastic performance as a panting, moaning, breast-rubbing nympho Ophelia...
...that modest goal. But in a hokey production all too typical of Washington's Shakespeare Theater, Hulce fails to make the words sound sincere and obscures the political and revenge narratives with muddling about real-or-feigned madness. Francesca Buller comes as close as anyone can to bringing off Ophelia's breakdown, and Franchelle Stewart Dorn provocatively sketches a Gertrude who senses her new husband's perfidy -- yet succumbs anyway...