Word: romeos
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THERE'S plenty of sobbing and sighing in this Romeo and Juliet. The performers seem determined to convince the audience of their genuine emotions in this most well-known and well-worn of tragic love stories. But as the "pair of starcross'd lovers" move through their familiar story on the Hasty Pudding stage, a curious feeling spreads through the theater--that the show is a farcical shadow of Shakespeare's play. The actors try to sink themselves into the pure emotion of the story and pay no attention to the words they...
...Romeo & Juliet...
Contrary to popular belief, the Hasty Pudding stage will not remain dark now that "Overtures in Asia Minor" has closed; the theater will host the Harvard Shakespeare Theater's Romeo and Juliet this weekend and next. There's not much one can say about the world's most famous tragic love story, except that this interpretation has a great deal of "fast and furious" action, according to one cast member, and that director Valerie Lester is aiming for highly emotional heights. The production will be a fairly straightforward one--in other words, Capulet will be an Italian nobleman...
...Romeo & Juliet--Hasty Pudding...
...should. When the great director King Vidor made The Champ in 1931, he created a four-handkerchief corker; a fine cast (Wallace Beery, the young Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich) and Vidor's emotional restraint prevented a sugary story from caramelizing. This remake, directed by Franco Zeffirelli (Romeo and Juliet), is another matter entirely. By miscasting all three major roles, adding 35 minutes to the original film's running time and reaching for cheap effects, the director has gilded a lily and then shredded...