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Shuffling onto the bare, makeshift stage of Boston's Church of the Covenant, Al Pacino's Richard could be taken for a failed Mafia assassin seeking asylum. The left sleeve of his green knit pullover bunches around some unspeakable wound of a hand. The yarn in the shoulder stretches obscenely over his hump. His cheeks quiver with little tics. His lips pout in private arrangements of humor and rage. When he speaks, Elizabethan English seems to acquire a Sicilian accent: Shakespeare out of The Godfather...
This is but one of several Richards that Pacino offers. Wooing Lady Anne across the corpse of her father-in-law, whom he has murdered, the Pacino Richard becomes the archetypal Latin lover, a superior Rudolph Valentino with sound. Playing off against his brother Edward IV-prim in gray double-breasted suit with pink button-down shirt and polka-dot tie-he cuts up like a sinister baggy-pants clown. Cornered on the battlefield where he is about to lose his crown and his life, waving the royal dagger like a switchblade, he turns into pure street fighter...
Richard III. A semi-modern dress version starring A1 Pacino, who's not bad for a gangster. Church of the Covenant, 67 Newbury St., til March...
Richard III. Al Pacino as the merry monarch executes things well, but the rest of the cast sometimes loses its head. The Theater Company of Boston, at the Church of the Covenant, 67 Newbury Street, til March...
Richard III. Theater Company of Boston, opening Saturday at 8 at the Church of the Covenant, 67 Newbury St., Boston. Al Pacino of The Godfather sets the murderous Machiavel to school in an interesting though imperfect production...