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...music is clearly meant to complement the movie’s kung-fu schlock. Without the movie’s visual hi-jinks, the collection of songs comes across obscure and often bizarre: take Zamfir’s four-minute flute rendition of “The Lonely Shepard??, or “Crane / White Lightning” by RZA and Charles Berenstein, which sounds like the street fighter version of an Ennio Morricone piece...
...Shepard??s True West is an intense, actor-driven piece of theatre. Its easy-to-summarize, difficult-to-perform story tells of two brothers who find themselves back in their mother’s home, exhibiting fraternity at its best and its worst. With source material that is rich in dialogue and powerful in emotion, it’s no wonder that past productions have drawn the likes of John Malkovich, Gary Sinise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, John C. Reilly, and even Bruce Willis, whose recent performance will be captured on film by the Showtime cable network...
Unfortunately, the Harvard production, while skillfully directed, never seems to come together, as the actors lack the two-person chemistry and individual chops to pull off Shepard??s challenging work...
...Shepard??s script demands that both Lee, Peter Richards ’01, and Austin, Sam McKnight (a Tufts student), know their characters intimately and portray them with a credible sense of familial history. Neither Richards nor McKnight were able to make the relationship believable; the connection needed to pull the audience into the action never evolved...
...Woodruff co-founded San Francisco’s Eureka Theatre. Four years later, he founded the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, where he first worked with the writer Sam Shepard??a collaboration that has continued for years...