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SUPERB ACTING in the midst of fine direction is the most impressive aspect of this production. Moore, as the self-assured and occasionally snide King Richard II, and John of Gaunt (Stephen Gutwillig) give command performances. Moore is especially powerful in Act III when Richard hears his troops have deserted him. His acting captivates the viewer as he kneels in the flashlit room speaking to the ground and questioning the "destined doom" of a king "within whose crown lies death's court" and desperately cries out, "I am a human, too." Again, Moore commands the stage during his resignation scene...
Like Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's is a play within a play; it is set in the living room of a flat somewhere in Prague. The actors are performing Macbeth for an audience of other displaced actors when the snide, cynical government Inspector (Andrew Watson) enters the apartment and interrupts the act. He chides Landovsky (Chuck Cannon) for being an actor who must sweep factories and sell newspapers to make money...
...happens, Flatters is cut down by the Tuareg four pages later. Porch knew it would happen the reader whew it would happen-the chapter is, duh, called "The Massacre" -but how could Flatters have known it without Porch's convenient historical hindsight? Still Porch's wry and occasionally snide writing makes for good reading and that' more important than scholarly reserve in pop history...
...some sentimental desire to maintain outer space as a lake of peace. The reason the Russians are worried should be obvious: they think the Star Wars program might actually work, thereby conferring significant military advantages on the United States. And that is a far cry from the snide put-downs of the concept offered its by the media...
They were not the only ones, says the prospective music concentrator, who now definitively states that he wants to be a cello soloist, and then a composer and or conductor Tsang adds. "I guess it sounds pretty snide, but I am only going to go into professional music it I am the best." And since Isang says that only three or four people can be the best in the cellist world, this may be difficult...