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...Shaw's heroes are men of moral passion." (English...
COVER: Computer-altered photo collage. Eye from Comstock Inc. Star Trek by Henry Gris -- FPG; credit cards by Robert Kristofik -- The Image Bank; Bernard Shaw courtesy CNN; travel by Paul Nehrenz -- The Image Bank; music by John Endress -- The Stock Market; Gone With the Wind from Photofest; The Crying Game courtesy Miramax Films; boxing by Neil Leifer; Arthur's Teacher Trouble courtesy Broderbund Software; VideoPhone courtesy AT&T; still-life photos by James Keyser...
...lover, himself an artist of more modest and domestically inclined talents. While the parallels with contemporary culture wars are obvious -- and reinforced by the use of electronically jazzed-up classical music during scene changes -- the text is short on plot and long on debate, to a degree that makes Shaw look taciturn. In touching on many themes, it embraces none. The excitement comes from Stevenson, flailing in outrage, cosseting a deranged daughter, nibbling her lover's abdomen in tenderness, peering with professional scrutiny at a war victim's ghastly wounds. The role offers an actress everything, and Stevenson is everything...
MOST OF GEORGE BERNARD SHAW'S SOcial comment is pretty stingless these days, but there's still spark in the love triangle in CANDIDA, where the title character chooses the "weaker" of two men -- not the lonely boy inured to pain but the proud public man, used to cosseting. Candida's fail-safe feminist speech enlivens the otherwise kittenish and cloying Broadway debut of Mary Steenburgen, an Oscar winner for Melvin and Howard. But the real joy is watching fellow film star Robert Sean Leonard (Dead Poets Society, Swing Kids) as her coltish adolescent admirer. He brings quiet reality...
...pistols around the house, and it's only a matter of time before one goes off. The tragedy may be inevitable, but a new MASTERPIECE THEATRE production of Ibsen's classic play (PBS, March 28) is possibly the first to make it seem like a blessed relief. Fiona Shaw's self-absorbed, unsympathetic portrayal makes Hedda ditso from the start: darting, distracted gestures, nervous facial tics and a voice that drops to an inaudible whisper about every third line. Stephen Rea (The Crying Game) is more engaging as the dissolute scholar who once loved her, but Deborah Warner's dark...