Word: passione
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, the differences between Adams's Harvard and ours seem enormous. Despite, the supposed apathy, there was a great deal of passion. And, unlike Adam's experience, it seemed to me that many of the upheavals in later years were the unsurprising extension of things we encountered at Harvard. The transformation of popular music is an example those with finer sensibilities may dismiss. For there was nothing trivial about the entry of Blacks into areas of national cuture long reserved fro whites, and rock music helped unify the youth subculture that sometimes seemed to be waging open war against...
This might be the text on which Peter Nichols elaborates in his scorching comedy of raddled mores in the late 20th century. The tale Passion tells is almost as old as drama is, the eternal triangle of husband, wife and the younger other woman. Despite the hoary age of its theme, the play is clever, impudent, erotic and an emotional demolition...
...England, Passion's title was Passion Play. The music of the Dies Irae boomingly punctuates some scenes, and the drama has a neoreligious subtext. James and Eleanor proclaim themselves atheists, but they are wistfully haunted by the death of God. While ranting about his right to "a flash of happiness before the void," James curses Christianity and Jesus Christ for depaganizing mankind: "The Christians took over the language of sexual emotion for their own purposes -passion, love, adoration, ecstasy . . . those words are now more meaningless than the so-called dirty words...
...Passion requires directorial fine-tuning, and, for some unknown reason, it does not receive that from Marshall W. Mason, who has proved admirably sensitive on any number of past occasions. The complexity of the intertwining roles called for more rehearsal time than the actors apparently got. Bob Gunton is a shade too stilted as James, hoping perhaps that physical constriction could simulate advanced middle age. Frank Langella moves with grand assurance across Broadway's Longacre stage, ranging from impish mischief to laceration of soul. As Eleanor and her alter ego, Damon and Kerr lend their roles compelling honesty...
...this season comes to a close, Passion proves to be its most intellectually stimulating and emotionally unsettling offering. - By T.E. Kalem