Word: scipio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ends up fuzzy, focusing on neither theme. This swinging back-and-forth results in passion when a delicate appreciation of the philosophical base of the play is more appropriate, or staunch underplaying when intensity is required. In one scene, Caesonia, Caligula's mistress (Sonia Martinez), tries to explain to Scipio (Matthew Horseman), a sensitive and innocent friend of the young Roman emperor, why Caligula had his father's tongue torn from his mouth and then slain for no apparent reason. In an attempt to make Scipio empathize with the personal torment of Caligula and understand the motives behind his random...
Caesonia asks not just Scipio, but the entire audience, to empathize with Caligula and to understand the magnitude of his misery--the torture that drives an individual to such sadism. But Martinez delivers the lines in a flip, spiteful tone--not at all imploringly or sensitively--and, as a result, another numeral of the combination to the play's thematic lock fails to click with the audience...
Preece and Executive Editor Philip W. Goetz personally plowed through 200,000 words of text a week. Goetz once struggled home with a briefcase full of articles on analgesics, Scipio, polymorphic biology, Canute the Great, Ethiopian culture and someone named 'Umar al-Hajj, "whoever the hell that was. * "- Curiously, neither editor claims to be a walking encyclopaedia. "To be a good editor, you've got to have a mind like a sieve," insists Preece. Adds Goetz: "I can talk for two minutes on any subject under the sun, but the third minute is usually a disaster...
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