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...ARTIST Any agile Green Bay Packer...
Directed by Tina Packer...
Richard III is a big production. There is very little that is simple, subtle or conventional about director Tina Packer's interpretations and logistical choices. But Packer does not allow the production's grandiose ambition to get out of hand. Rather, the performance comes together as an innovative, entertaining, colorful, emotional and eclectic menagerie of talented actors, an ingenious set, well-chosen musical accompaniment and even some battlefield choreography. Although the performance is rather long--running just shy of four hours--and the plot is often complicated and confusing for those not intimately familiar with the play's history, Richard...
...Packer divides the character of the evil, hunchbacked Richard into separate roles played by three different actors (Paul Monteleoni '01, Marisa Echeverria '00 and Henry Clarke) in a skillful but rather conspicuous, representation of the central villain as a piecewise amalgamation of three distinct personalities. Although one should be suspicious of any theatrical performance that is compelled to provide a verbose description and justification of the director's interpretation in the program, Packer relies more on the performance than the program to present her concept of the three Richards convincingly...
...Packer introduces her ideas in an open-minded way, Monteleoni adds...