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...prophet without honor in his own country. For prophet one could read writer, although the plot of this allusive entertainment gallops on its own. The style is picaresque, the message is salvation through health food, and the medium is Millroy, a road-show magician. Part Jesus, part Prospero, part yogi, he alone would make this a novel to conjure with. But Theroux adds another delight, Jilly Farina, a plucky adolescent with an artless narrative voice that, like Huckleberry Finn's, grabs and holds the reader's attention from the first page: "I had walked from Gaga's in Marstons Mills...
Brattle Theatre. 40 Brattle St., Harvard Square. 876-6837. "Edward II" at 4 and 8 p.m. and "Prospero's Books" at 5:40 and 9:45 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 2. "Visions of Light" at 4 and 8 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 3 and Saturday, Dec. 4. "Blade Runner" at 5:45 and 9:50 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 3 and Saturday, Dec. 4, with a Saturday matinee at 1:45 p.m. "Adam's Rib" at 3:30 and 7:35 p.m. and "State of the Union" at 1, 5:15 and 9;30 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 5. "Night...
Everybody knows the story of The Tempest: the magician Prospero and his daughter, Miranda, have lived on a desert island ever since Prospero's brother, Antonio, usurped the Dukedom of Milan and banished them. But now Prospero conjures a tempest to wreck Antonio's passing ship. Antonio and his fellow conspirators fall into Prospero's hands. With the help of the sprites that he controls, Prospero dictates the subsequent events on the island, cunningly arranging a reconciliation and improving his political standing. The play toys with our notions of reality and illusion, and presents an engaging debate about power...
Chicu Reddy, as Prospero's exploited slave, Caliban, would naturally dominate a production organized on these lines. For the opening few scenes, he looks like he will. He acts with presence and confidence, playing Caliban as the downtrodden but spirited revolutionary. But that interpretation just doesn't work. Caliban's situation strikes the viewer as poignant because, by our society's terms, he is only semi-human. To transform him into the streetwise troublemaker that Reddy portrays is to dodge that most pressing issue. Before the weaknesses in Reddy's Caliban become obvious, the director loses interest in his brainchild...
This fresh foray into the realms of interpretation meets with even less success. Brian Kim plays Prospero like a used car salesman. Disaster threatens each time the shiny-suited Kim stands under a spotlight, but the dreaded meltdown never occurs. Instead, he melts the icy hearts of the Italians with his friendly smile and firm handshake...