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Directed by Pier Carlo Talenti...
...best of the "classicists" was Sironi, whose reputation as an artist has badly suffered from his devotion to Fascism: he stayed loyal to Mussolini right through to 1943. The figure on horseback in The White Horse and the Pier, 1920-22, draws on Italy's long history of equestrian hero images and may refer to the Duce. Nevertheless, as painting, Sironi's dark, emphatically delineated compositions, with their massive figures and Brunelleschian weight of architecture, are often quite superb, a reminder that you cannot necessarily judge an artist by his or her political ideology...
...March 9. The caller said he had read in a Santiago paper that his threat was being treated as a hoax. Be warned, he said, it was no hoax. Fifty FDA inspectors were dispatched to the Almeria Star as it docked in Philadelphia. They set up tables along the pier and began examining 1,200 cases of grapes for softness, discoloration and the telltale welds caused by punctures. By Sunday, 150 inspectors, more than 15% of the FDA's field force, were eyeballing grapes at the Tioga Marine Terminal. Fifteen suspicious bunches of grapes -- 2% of the nearly...
Performers Pier Carlo Talenti and Mankwe Ndosi have done their best to draw the audience into their isolated world. Talenti and Ndosi bring a tremendous amount of energy to their performances. Talenti brings an endearing and childish naivete to the role of Lawrence, which makes his portrayal seem all the more natural. Ndosi's performance as Joanna is executed with intelligence and veracity. But although both actors are able to suspend reality for awhile, they have essentially been assigned an impossible task. Lawrence and Joanna are not your average couple. And so, despite the valiant attempts of the cast...
...Pier Carlo Talenti certainly looks the part of Che Guevara, the South American revolutionary who narrates the show, but he's a little short on the cynicism his role requires. It's hard to sing and be sarcastic at the same time, and Talenti has clearly opted for the former. Talenti has a good voice, but Evita asks more of him than vocal skills, and he falls short of the play's demands...