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...when it comes to the Inouyes and Legal Seafood waiters of the world, be they Tufties or MITers, Elis or Princetonians, Shakespeare??s Cassius put it best: “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings...
Amazingly, there is no bitterness or blame in Borrowed Finery. The quote that serves as a preface to the book—“After so long grief, such nativity!” from Shakespeare??s The Comedy of Errors—is a fitting testament to both Fox’s past and her present. Borrowed Finery comes at a time when Fox’s adult fiction is enjoying a rather remarkable resurgence, spurred in large part by the newly prominent author Jonathan Franzen, who discovered Fox’s 1970 novel Desperate Characters...
...rather feminine body (very apparent in the lack of a costume that Puck is required to wear) did not quite fit, however, with the particularly athletic style of Puck’s choreography. Courtain did pull off some amusing facial expressions and pantomime that attempted to fill in for Shakespeare??s words, but he always seemed about a half-beat off in terms of the character...
Having avoided that classic trap, McGee falls into a newer one. Some modern Shakespearean directors feel it necessary to alter Shakespeare??s plays in order distinguish their piece as an original production, failing to ground their revisions in the original text. McGee commits the error in creating a series of textually baseless flashbacks in the mind of the Friar, who McGee portrays as the ultimate villain; though the sequences are well executed, they only confuse the audience and detract from the show...
...what is a Juliet without her Romeo? And what a Romeo Graham Sack ’03 is, stealing the show with his awe-inspiring performance. At ease with the comic, the tragic, and the romantic moments of one of Shakespeare??s greatest characters, Sack’s incredible skill is on full display. Sack’s genuine delivery and wit combine to make a truly loveable Romeo...