Word: spanishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first is a blue sky with a few fair-weather clouds and a couple of trees. We hear John Duffy's music for brass, xylophone, tambourine and harp--and it sounds somewhat Spanish, curiously. A big wagon rolls into sight and disgorges an itinerant acting troupe, which takes bows before the audience. This could make sense, but Anthony has done away entirely with the Induction scenes, in which Shakespeare makes clear that Shrew is an entertainment within an entertainment...
...show proceeds, we discover that the play is indeed intended to be Spanish--or is it Mexican? There are Spanish guitars; Petruchio and even Kate herself puff long cigars. Why all this Hispanicism for a work that makes so many specific references to Padua, Pisa. Florence, Mantua, Rome, Verina and Venice? Even the virtue of consistency is absent, however--especially in Hal George's costumes, which range in style all the way from the Renaissance to Dickens...
...himself provides the reason why productions of his plays, flourishing in barns and parks beneath the stars, have become a hardy harbinger of summer. Nowadays, nearly every American is within a day's drive of some performance of the Bard. It may be spoken in Elizabethan English or Spanish with a New York accent, played by a professional repertory group or a traveling troupe, mounted in an authentic replica of the 16th century Globe Theatre or on a mobile stage truck...
...TULA. A beautiful spinster (Aurora Bautista) is tormented by mixed desire and disgust for her widowed brother-in-law in Spanish Director Miguel Picazo's impeccable first film, an essay on the rigors of virginity Castilian style...
...PAWNBROKER. A compelling performance by Rod Steiger gives focus to this grim drama about an embittered old Jew caught between the horrors of Spanish Harlem and the Nazi horrors of yesteryear...