Word: stratford
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...sure, however, that it will return. This is a company for sharp risks and controlled experiment, which insists not only on tradition but also on the right-indeed, the artistic necessity-to fail. A recent week's sampling of R.S.C. fare in London and Stratford, where the company runs the Royal Shakespeare Theater and an experimental house called the Other Place, showed the company in hot pursuit of both ends of the spectrum. In London, besides the astonishing Nicholas, the company offered an excellent Juno and the Paycock, with a force-of-nature performance by Judi Dench...
...Stratford, there was Ron Daniels' experimentally modernized Romeo and Juliet, with Romeo (Anton Lesser) and his mates decked out in boots and leather jackets, and Juliet (Judy Buxton) playing her balcony scene atop what looked like an abstract painting. Also at Stratford, R.S.C. Veteran Alan Howard, directed by Terry Hands, was essaying both of Shakespeare's Richards, II and III. In the latter, a sort of cooked-up Jacobean melodrama, Howard hobbled about a raked stage somewhat more fleetly than he actually managed some of the lines...
Hall, who now runs the embattled National Theater, created the R.S.C. as a "permanent ensemble and was responsible for expanding the operation from Stratford to London. He departed the R.S.C. in 1968, but says now, "I feel as though I've never left since I've taken so much of it with me. What we did at the R.S.C. colors everything...
While world financial markets reacted nervously to the outbreak of war between Iran and Iraq last week, a new book that promised to be a survival manual for economic disaster was riding atop the bestseller lists. Its title: Crisis Investing: Opportunities and Profits in the Coming Great Depression (Stratford Press; $12.50). The book has already sold approximately 150,000 copies and turned its author, Douglas R. Casey, 34, into the newest high priest of financial gloom and doom...
...STRATFORD, Conn.--Among Shakespeare's plays, Richard III ranks second only to Hamlet in the total number of lines, in the size of the title role, and in its appeal to actors and producers over the centuries. The bloody monster who murdered his way to the throne (a notoriously inaccurate historical portrait) has over the years engaged the talents of several women, boys in their early teens, and even little Ellen Bateman, who began acting the role professionally when she was four...