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In short, A Community Carol, Dickens transposed to the ghetto, is daring but definitely not disrespectful. In a season when most regional theaters abandon creative integrity for a gold-digging, anodyne version of A Christmas Carol replete with chestnuts (in both senses) but not a lot of consciousness raising, the...
But the tangled plot never seems too top-heavy because Jarman insists on making light of his subject matter without trivializing it. The movie retains a tongue-in-cheek attitude throughout. The Striking scenes--more sets, really--consist of one or two pieces of colorful, improbable furniture as amusing and...
If eccentric, this staging of Timon is a vast improvement over what preceded it: in the first season a murky, static staging of The Crucible, a labored, lumpen version of a Feydeau bedroom farce and a rendition of Ibsen's The Master Builder about which even Randall, who directed, can...
Out of breath is a useful condition to impose on Pacino. Really good movie actors force you to lean in a little in order to catch their meaning. Pacino, + instead, leans on you, and though his boldness is sometimes impressive, in its calculated way there is also something overweening about...
The delivery of difficult rape scenes, where both actors must convey the violence of the scene while describing it and acting it out, is particularly skillful. The reverse scene, in which the female performers act out the parts of Achilles and Ajax, the perpetrators in the rape, creates a mood...