Word: ott
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into our national psychology. But it is, after all, a game. The lofty rhetoric of The Civil War seemed perfectly suited to the epic subject; in Baseball everything from Carl Hubbell's screwball to Mickey Mantle's bad knees is given the same sense of moment. Hard-hitting Mel Ott, we're told in portentous tones, was "so feared at the plate that he was once intentionally walked with the bases loaded." Negro League star "Cool Papa" Bell was "so fast he once scored from first on a sacrifice bunt." Chicago Cubs great Ernie Banks was "so fond of playing...
REGIONAL SALES DIRECTOR: Thomas M. Ott...
REGIONAL SALES DIRECTOR: Thomas M. Ott...
Kingston has complained that critics, while generous, misread her work as being about China rather than America. Berkeley Rep artistic director Sharon Ott, the latest in a mob of adapters who have spent nearly two decades trying to find a dramatic idiom for Kingston's work, calls the central character "a troubled, gifted, 12-year-old American girl trapped in a petite Chinese body...
...Ott's version, created with writer Deborah Rogin, plays on the Berkeley campus until July 10, then opens the fall season at Boston's Huntington Theatre before being rethought for a new Los Angeles staging next spring. The spectacle is impressive but often slow and emotionally remote. In veering away from the kitchen-sink realism of most immigrant dramas, Rogin and Ott have made too much oblique. Despite program notes, many allusions to Chinese heritage will elude even spectators acquainted with Peking Opera, the crucial inspiration. To Ott, femaleness, not ethnicity, is at the heart of the story. "The relationships...