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...chooses classic texts, from The Arabian Nights to the 16th century Chinese novel Journey to the West, transforming them with her lyrical, low-tech theatricality, spiced with dollops of dance, mime and performance art. (She typically starts rehearsals with no script, writing it at home as she sees it performed.) Her version of Homer's Odyssey is a 3 1/2-hour epic constructed of chairs, poles, bags of sand and shadow play. In The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci actors perform excerpts from the Renaissance genius's scientific writings while cavorting on a floor-to-ceiling set of wooden cabinets...
...fine performances. Matthew E. Johnson ’02 and Jody E. Flader ’02 are widely acknowledged as two of the finest performers of the Harvard stage, and for good reason. Though the note on which the professor is played seems out of sync with the script, Johnson is always believable and suggests more character development in the way he manipulates a telephone than most actors do in an extended monologue. Flader’s student is appropriately frustrated, and she squeezes every drop from a chilling moment in which she attempts to convince the professor...
There is this idea among people who make great movies that these masterpieces can somehow be improved. Like all movies, these great ones were made under undue amounts of stress, there were heartbreaking compromises between director and studio, the script was tragically trimmed to get the running time within the realm of marketability. (When Titanic opened in December of 1997, the running time was listed as 2:78 instead of 3:18. People, apparently, were fooled.) Filmmakers ruefully remember the havoc of making the great movie, how if only they had a little more time or a little more money...
...takes Hou two hours to show us the workings of this relationship, which extends little beyond breezy copulative invective. There are the makings of a fine film within this relationship, but the feckless script won't let it develop. We feel Vicky's intense claustrophobia, but no matter how many cigarettes Shu Qi lights (35 by this reviewer's count), the smoke rises and vanishes into thin nothing. The palpitant star gets more screen time here than in her past 20 films combined and you can't help but look at her, but she is given too little substance from...
Though the script at times drags, and the intelligence level of the humor is lower than needed to elicit laughs, the play is directed by Geoffrey Stevens ’03 with the right comic emphasis and registers as a success and an enjoyable diversion for a college audience...