Word: poetically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Todd does not project her voice enough to overcome the acoustics of the room, and her delivery is, almost without exception, unvarying. Worst of all, the most poetic lines of the play, when constricted by a solely realistic interpretation, appear to be embarassing instead of poignant in their formality...
...ability to transfer literal modern speech onto the page, nor does he do it solely to make his characters seem sentimentally corny. Mamet himself decried the critics who called him a magnificent realist, only to turn around and say that he seemed to forget himself at times and wax poetic...
Like Mamet's poetic dialogue, his characters are allegorical, pointedly representative. Nick and Ruth, a "Man" and a "Woman", divulge no specific information about their families, their jobs, or the earlier history of their relationship. Their stories do not contextualize their existence, instead they echo an earlier, mythically romantic, generation when people did love generously...
Those stories and their setting demonstrate neither the arbitrariness nor the happenstance of realism, but rather the symbolism and metaphor of poetic art. We are not just in a late autumn of crunchy leaves, but also the autumn of a relationship...
...tour that would make a much younger artist flinch. Cherkassky still plays more than 80 dates a year, and audiences can be sure that there won't be any staleness or formula presentation. He is called the last of the great Romantics for good reason: his style is freewheeling, poetic, very much the flowering of his temperament and his mood of the moment. As such he is a priceless antidote to the prevailing vogue in pianism for note-perfect but dry interpretations. Along with the Bach and the Chopin, Cherkassky plays at least one modern piece on each program...