Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...winter's tale that most shocked the theatrical community was the announcement early this year that the American Shakespeare Theatre, established in 1955, was in debt and might well have to close down forever. The tab for mounting a season's productions had risen to $1.75 million, and the AST could not open its doors this year unless $300,000 turned up from somewhere by the start of April...
Still, nickels and dimes would have to be parceled out carefully. One way to save money--thrift, thrift, Horatio--would be to remount The Winter's Tale, which had entered the repertory only at the end of the 1975 season. The sets and props were all made and on hand, the costly costumes sewn and in storage, the incidental music composed and its parts copied. In addition, a number of the players were free to return and already in full command of their roles...
...malice. In the first installment of Answered Prayers, set at Manhattan's La Côte Basque restaurant during lunchtime, Capote was out to make his readers throw up while his characters ate. But he is merely a sniggering Boy Scout compared with Jonathan Swift, who, in A Tale of a Tub, had a character kneel in the street to pray, then void his bladder in the eyes of the passersby leaning over to investigate...
...they can see themselves through Shange's eyes, black men are going to wince. They are portrayed as brutal con men and amorous double-dealers. A segment called "Dark Phrases," featuring Janet League, telescopes a black wom an's experience, and in a cruel tale of love and blood lust called "A Nite With Beau Willie Brown," Trazana Beverley brings the audience to a culminating gasp of agony. An altogether excellent cast not only dances but delivers lines with a revivalist fervor that might have inspired Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the fiery furnace...
...tale of the perfect schnorrer: a peautiful chewisch...