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...theatrical experience superfluous. Why go to a play or movie to see someone act a part when friends (and strangers) are doing it all around us all the time? One imagines, since Shawn and Gregory wrote this piece in a glumly realistic man ner, and play them selves with shameless conviction, that they intend to demonstrate that a dramatic work can actually be less stagy, more authentic, than life...
...always believed they held nothing more sacred than the welfare of their children. To find that the children disagreed with this conviction was devastating. Now we have come to a time when a son can accuse his father of being a pimp for his homosexual daughter-and the father, shameless as he is, fails even to be insulted by the accusation...
...there is something deeper at work here: a shameless, ferociously strong moral sense...
...easy to see why. Against a backdrop of the lush Dorset landscape, two young lovers scale the Wuthering Heights of passion and despair. Charles Smithson, a kind and restless and resolutely ordinary gentleman of his day, meets Sarah Woodruff, once a genteel governess, now an outcast for her shameless "affair" with a capricious foreign sailor. That first gaze is enough. He abandons his wealthy fiancée, his friends and his good name to be with her-and, when Sarah mysteriously abandons him, to live with her memory...
This production by the New York Shakespeare Festival at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park is silly, vulgar and achingly dull. It is a shameless assault on Shakespeare, couched in the parched emotional idiom of the cool urban disco jitters. If the playgoers had to pay anything for their seats, they would probably storm the box office demanding refunds from Producer Joseph Papp...