Word: prosperos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that they were more or less ensuring -- if the principle were to be applied fairly -- that most Asian-American actors would have to sit around in limbo and wait for the next production of The Mikado. They were also raising some highly intriguing questions. How can John Gielgud play Prospero when Doug Henning is at hand? Should future Shakespeares -- even future August Wilsons -- stock their plays with middle-class whites so as to have the largest pool of actors from which ( to choose? And next time we stage Moby Dick, will there be cries that the title part be taken...
...Like Prospero, Stern is a magician who confronts unruly influences in a brave new world. The Midwestern Caliban is played by Hartnell, husband of Stern's sister and his most troublesome client -- a "small-town boy made good, gone bad." To see him on the floor of the commodity exchange is to observe a force of nature: "He stepped into the tiered levels of the pits, shaking hands and tossing greetings like Frank Sinatra onstage, commanding the same reverence, or, in some quarters, subverted loathing." When he admits, "I've always wanted to do what other people wouldn't," Stern...