Word: suzman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brilliant as the man who created him. Marlow, who relishes the cheap irony that his name echoes that of Raymond Chandler's famed sleuth, is a failed novelist hitting 50 with a terrifying thud. His career has been sidetracked by illness and bile. His marriage to an actress (Janet Suzman) is just an awful memory. He lies in a London hospital with psoriatic arthritis, a crippling condition of the skin and bones. The pain and the pain-killers force Marlow's mind down strange old country lanes and treacherous culs-de-sac. Figures from the past make cameo appearances...
...Kevin McNally), son of the murdered war hero Agamemnon, pursues his cousin Hermione (Penelope Wilton), daughter of Helen of Troy, who in turn loves Achilles' son Pyrrhus (Peter Eyre). But Pyrrhus, although betrothed to Hermione, has insulted his fellow Greeks by offering his heart and throne to Andromache (Janet Suzman), widow of the Trojan prince Hector, and by sparing her son Astyanax, the last male of the royal house of Troy...
Andromache lives only for her child and the memory of her husband, and of all the passions avowed in the opening scenes, only hers is steadfast. As portrayed by Suzman, Andromache's immersion in the past is not weak or dreamy but sexy and compelling. In the end, the enslaved queen rules over the city, and her son has been declared the rightful future king of Troy. The fickle, feckless others have been destroyed by their excesses: Pyrrhus murdered, Hermione a suicide, Orestes driven mad. Ultimately the production's shortcomings are not important. Racine, Miller and Set Designer Richard Hudson...
...Fernandopulle'89, Andrea Destine, Jennifer A. Dunne '89, DavidL. Hays '90, Adele C. Iorio '89, Erik E. Kaplan'89, Stephan J. Klasen '91, Eugene E. Lee '88,Meredith G. Lazo '89, Ann Marie Leshkowich '89,Michael E. Raynor '90, Thomas I. Savage '91, MiaT. von Sudovsky '89, L. Mark Suzman '90, Drory S.Tendler '88, Darreld R. Turner '91, Zegart andAleksandar Zorovic...
...loudly on the sanctions issue during South Africa's parliamentary election campaign earlier this year. Voter resentment over the measures not only helped keep Botha's National Party in power but also propelled the even more reactionary Conservative Party into second place -- and status as the official opposition -- sending Suzman's liberal Progressive Federal Party into the wilderness...