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...department held a press conference to boast of its new, racially diverse and gender-balanced class of rookie officers. Many officers within that class were given special training in everything from motorcycle riding to rape-crisis education...
...cliche contends that the Spanish are a proud and passionate people; Lope de Vega's Fuente Ovejuna hardly strives to dispel the stereotype. After a spot of flogging and rape foreplay, loopy Lope really gets the juices flowing with graphic onstage torture and decapitation. Gorier than "Commando," racier than "Emmanuelle on Taboo Island," Fuente Ovejuna makes for old-fashioned family fun. Yet for all its mainstage status, its interesting script and its many strengths, the Loeb production retains on overwhelming air of student drama of the cardboard shield and plastic sword school...
...Vega sticks to the courtly writing conventions of his day: his shepherds display admirable eloquence, intellectual curiosity and a penchant for Socratic dialogue; his washerwomen have quicker wits and sharper tongues than Oscar Wilde, and all his characters indulge a fondness for spontaneous poetry in the throes of battle, rape and torture. Nor did the author subscribe to total proletarian emancipation: Subcurrents of aristocratic patronage and the social contract irk modern-day viewers. And the script deserves to be adopted as the acid-proof test for actors, directors and technical crew: It calls for snap transitions from jovial wedding festivities...
Yvonne Roemer faces the same challenge, spiced with a pinch of rape trauma. She glides effortlessly from coquettish flirting to ranting bloodlust. She grapples with the most rhetorical speech in the play, and succeeds in varying her tone without reducing the dramatic crescendo...
...Wolfgang Murad puts the wit into twit in his portrayal of Mengo, the village idiot. His buffoonery provides much-needed comic relief, but he rises to the manly occasion of preventing his cousin's rape convincingly...