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...nation is famously lucky. Its primal luck was geography and timing: a wild natural abundance that was encountered by gifted men and women in the clear rational blue of the Enlightenment. The Constitution was drafted in a moment of ascendant science -- political science preached by Locke and Montesquieu, for example -- and belief in the power of reason to subdue the savage and ignorant regions of the mind...
...last the night came. I arrived on the set shortly before eight, and was greeted by my fellow actors. "It's the body!" "Hi body, you look dead!,"--yuk yuk. The director called the cast together and everyone did primal screams and things as a warmup. Everyone but me, that is. I figured that, for once, energy was the last thing my performance needed...
...hand, Richard Kiley, as the machine-shop boss, and a stunning newcomer, Jamey Sheridan, as the son who has always sort of known about, but never allowed himself to acknowledge, his father's crime. They share an easy masculinity, a love of argument, a trust more primal than mutual understanding. Their collisions are brutal. At his best Miller has been an avenging fury, and this All My Sons is Miller at his best. W.A.H...
...subsequently died in an epidemic of smallpox, brought on a company ship from India. To do the heavy work, the Dutch settlers, who were soon joined by a number of Germans and French Huguenot refugees, brought in slaves, mostly from Madagascar, Mozambique and the Dutch East Indies. Thus the primal relationship between the Afrikaners and the blacks took form...
Still, Cohn has changed Blood Wedding in many fundamental way. Garcia Lorca's primal story and themes remain, but his poetry and Andalusian spirit are either lost on the audience or are simply lost. The actors and production crew bring technical polish to the production, but the translation and Cohn's other changes tend to dilute their efforts to provide Blood Wedding with the intensity it deserves...