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Walsh does, however, find himself at the center of a truly remarkable rendition of the play’s Pyramus and Thisbe scene. Shakespeare’s purposely atrocious play-within-the-play reaches almost sublime levels of comic absurdity, and is the only scene that truly succeeds. John Kuntz—who plays a caricatured version of Peter Quince to perfection—begins the scene by acting out the play with action figures. His madcap energy fully sustains this feat until the other actors take over with even more delightfully embarrassing antics. Walsh’s Pyramus performs...
...Romeo and Juliet” has inspired an abundance of adaptations, from Sergei Prokofiev’s ballet to Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side Story.” Shakespeare himself adapted the story from the earlier tale of Pyramus and Thisbe. While most of these adaptations preserve the tragedy of the love story, Ottavio Cappellani’s latest novel “Sicilian Tragedee” takes the tale in the unusual direction towards comedy.At first glance Cappellani’s work, now available in an English translation by Frederika Randall, appears capricious...
...set—bare except for three yawning graves—and remarking on how mean and callous the lovers sound as they snipe and push each other around the stage. Save for the unanimous critical praise for the mechanical’s concluding performance of “Pyramus and Thisbe,” which prompted mad hooting and a standing ovation from the audience, Midsummer seems to strike viewers as a dark dream...
...inimitably terse prose is recognizable from her previous criticism, particularly her tendency to issue elliptical, almost aphoristic judgments at an essay’s end. In addition, a few creative pieces—one an accompaniment for a Jasper Johns exhibit, the other a short parodic sketch of Pyramus and Thisbe—provide unsatisfying, indulgent interludes...
...leaden and hasty. Reset for no discernible reason from ancient Athens to 19th century Tuscany, it focuses on the fun stuff--the fairies who inhabit the damp but enchanted wood, the rude mechanicals (led by Kevin Kline's hammy but well-cured Bottom) and their awful-wonderful production of Pyramus and Thisbe...