Word: sicilia
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Aiding the communication of the magic are the skilled performances of the actors, particularly GSAS Brett Gamboa (also the production’s director), as the Bohemian King, Polixenes, accused of cuckolding his life long friend Leontes, King of Sicilia...
...dying, and she summons her son to Sicilia for the occasion. As he leaves Loretta, he asks her to visit his brother and settle the bad blood between them...
According to the synopsis, the play spans 16 years and concerns the King of Sicilia, Leontes, whose blind jealousy about his wife Hermione's relationship with his friend the King of Bohemia--Polixenes--leads to the supposed death of his wife, the abandonment of his newly born daughter in the countryside, the death of his young son, and ultimately his isolation in his lonely kingdom. The actual play is filled with mystical presences, such as Leontes most trusted advisor Camillo--who casts spells and forecasts various occurrences--and Paulina, the queen's confidante, who seems to have some special relationship...
...protests are aimed at the U.S., a group of Communist youths stopped last month outside the Soviet embassy in Rome to shout, "Comrade Brezhnev, cannons are useless, revolution is made by the masses!" Many of the placards at Rome's big Oct. 24 rally carried the rhyming couplet, Dalla Sicilia alia Scandinavia, no alia NATO e al patto di Varsavia (From Sicily to Scandinavia, no to NATO and the Warsaw Pact...
PERHAPS WHEN THE ACTION switched to Bohemia in the fourth act, Redford stayed behind in Sicilia. In another production an act as terrible as this would destroy the entire show. But Redford's exceptional talents shine nonetheless in the other four acts--which are gilded by the exceptional performances of Shohet and Clemenson. Shohet's performance is of a calibre rare for the Harvard stage. Clemenson's performance is a of a calibre rare for any stage...