Word: stage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...realizes that something is different about this production immediately upon walking into the theater space. The first play, Bernard Shaw's The Great Catherine, suposedly takes place in 1776 St. Petersburg. However, surveying the neo-60's psychedelic murals that surround the stage one could have easily mistake the set for a Bangles sound-stage. For obvious reasons, the wall-size mural of a wizarded-out Mickey Mouse on a flying broom simply does not cut it as a Russian landscape...
...terrific things about this double bill is that most of the actors in the first play return for the second. Orion Ross sheds the stuffy English character to stand out as the cutie pie-Casanova who bunny hops his way around the stage, causing Princess Huncamunca (Jennifer Gibbs) to lustily gnaw away at her sheets. Also in pursuit of the tiny Tom is the Amazonian Queen Glumulca (Margaret Meserve), who effectively vents out her sexual trustrations by devouring whole cabbage heads and stomping around the kingdom in her funky metallicized platform shoes...
Director Adam Hyman also deserves praise for his imaginative use of the limited potential of the Holmes Living Room as a stage and for judiciously injecting a few moments of comic relief into Miss Julie's bitter battle. For make no mistake, this little domestic drama aspires to Tragedy with a capital T, and when the catharsis finally comes, you will leave happily exhausted...
...Chausable; he employs an entirely different British accent to capture perfectly the character's well-meaning but provincial sobriety as well as his underlying lecherousness. And as society matron Aunt Augusta, Emma Laskin drawls each word with a terrifically contemptuous sneer; she may be the only actor on stage who can not only read a Wilde epigram but can squeeze a laugh out of it as well...
Chair of the House Ways and Means Committee Richard A. Voke (D-Chelsea), who has flatly rejected the Dukakis proposal, was quick to deny the Republican charge yesterday that his committee's spending proposals were setting the stage for a long-term tax hike...