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...faster and perhaps more tongue-twisting; but the Lord Chancellor's song is the Moby Dick of patter songs, the masterpiece all the rest led up to or away from. Singing the Lord Chancellor's song is the equivalent, for a Savoyard, of Hamlet or Lear for a Shakespearean. The lyrics are a juxtaposition of complete irreverence ("the black silk with gold clocks") with a sense of heightened reality and absurdity characteristic of real nightmares...
...more sinned against than sinning--the temptation that this production, not without provocation, succumbed to. One suspects that Esptein really wanted to play Lear or Coriolanus. Epstein was the only actor in the entire cast to successfully master the art of speaking verse on stage and achieving a Shakespearean voice. Although at all times he was eloquent, Epstein, in a proper attempt to make Shylock a genuine foreigner in the midst of the Venetian oligarchy, overdid his accent to the point where--combined with the wheezing and spluttering of old age--it obscured his lines. In a sense Epstein...
...have recognized. The only serious miscasting was the Duke of Venice himself (David Garcia) who lacked the eloquence to make his magnanimity seem better than a sham. Graziano (Dan Riviera) left his role in a shambles, just a little too rasping and sinister to fit in with the overarching Shakespearean theme...
...Have Lived in Arcadia," which Lang calls a pastoral, contains a bizarre mixture of kitsch and Shakespearean poetic form. The verse is pretty fluid and the characters draw some fascinating comparisons between urban landscapes and the unwieldy structure and pathetic decline of prehistoric creatures. Chloris, a stubborn foe of science and technology, drone long-some, polysyllabic, hypnotic lists of the members of the biological categories...
...some reason, Shakespeare's plays seem to get an Inordinate amount of outdoor productions. At the moment there are two such offerings in the Boston area. Measure for Measure, a comedy to which original music has been added (making it yet another addition to the growing body of Shakespearean musical comedies), is being performed under the stars at the Publick Theater, 1175 Soldier's Field Rd., along the Charles Wednesday through Saturday at 8 p.m., admission...