Word: staging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Explaining her role in the White House, Wexler says: "There was a vacuum between the policy formulation stage and congressional enactment. They needed to create a base of support outside the Administration...
...most powerful presence on the stage is that of Jaime Sanchez. His Marc Antony is a Latinate fire storm who could sear stones, let alone move plebeians. His funeral oration turns the hearers into a combustible evangelical orgy, and deserves...
...neglect of the play is understandable--Shakespeare never painted a more thoroughly ugly, corrupt society than the Vienna of Measure for Measure. The rulers are hypocrites, the police are incompetent, and even the clowns are annoying. The Duke, a Prospero-like character who stage-manages much of the plot, takes a good look around his city and decides it needs a house-cleaning. But he's too good-hearted to enforce the stringent laws himself, so he abdicates in favor of his deputy Angelo, leaving to wander the country as a monk...
Only once does the BSC seize the play's dark side and expose it to the audience. As Pompey the whoremaster (Mark Cartier) gives the audience a tour of the riff-raff in the prison, he opens trapdoors in the stage floor which serve as cell doors--and long arms reach out, grabbing for him, trying to drag him down. It's a good bit of stage business, and it's also an eerie picture of the starved world of Measure for Measure, sucking its inhabitants into the abyss...
...also terribly fascinating to watch. David Peterson, a little-known Canadian stage actor, plays Collins and he holds your attention every minute he's on screen. He has DeNiro's cold intensity and Dirty Harry's ruthlessness. He explains he's so good at his job because it's all he does. The first part of this film follows Collins around Vancouver as he carries out his dirty work. For the fourth year he's shooting for Man of the Year, and even though he's a bit behind there's little doubt as you watch him operate that...