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Given the obstacles the script presents, this in itself is a commendable effort. Though the play does purport to concern itself with the plight of Miss Julie (Andrea Dishy) and her servant (Dean Norris), its heavily Marxist language and tone often undercut the development of the characters as individuals. Moreover, while many of Strindberg's speeches are poetic and inspirational, much of the script is repetitious. The virtual absence of any physical action, coupled with a cast of only three characters, makes for a dangerously static 90 minutes if director and cast aren't careful...
...Dishy's performance illustrates, Julie is also a pitiable character, a girl with a sordid past and an emotionally empty present. Similarly, Norris' refreshingly human portrayal of Jean transcends the stereotype of the noble savage and simple Marxist social commentary. While Jean admittedly experiences humiliation as a servant of aristocrats, it is not Julie--but rather Jean himself--who is in great part responsible for his savage character...
...Delhi street. "I want to kill Sikhs. I want to see Sikh blood on the streets." Whole blocks of Sikh dwellings were gutted. In one slum area of the capital, a Hindu mob was reported to have slaughtered 94 Sikhs with knives and iron bars. Said a civil servant: "The backlash is terrible. It reminds me of the days of partition." Indeed, the trains arriving in Delhi last week with the battered bodies of murdered Sikhs were reminiscent of the "trains of death" that rolled through Punjab in those fearful times. Finally, the government canceled train service between Delhi...
...good. Once Kate and Petruchio are married, he begins a regimen of brainwashing as Groucho Marx might have done it, and by the end of the play Kate is "tamed," a seemingly docile and meek servant to Petruchio's will...
...Alexis Colby is head of an oil empire. Fairchild's character runs a top modeling agency. Even the fun-loving private eyes are doing work formerly reserved for men. "Lynda Carter and I play two working women," says Anderson. "We rent a house, and a man is our servant. Women want to see women being both strong and glamorous at the same time. To be glamorous doesn't mean that you are frivolous...