Word: tales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gorbachev, then, but that does not justify the sense of manifest density that colors Butson's earnest tale about "the determined young man from Stavropool...
Basically a "Revenge Of The Rarified Nerds," Function is a tale of social scatology. The hero, Gilbert Chilvers (Michael Palin of Monty Python fame), is a man shat upon. His story is a struggle for status, which in the throes of postwar means meat All the town aristocrats are dining on veal and steak while poor Gilbert meekly spoons Spam from...
FEAR AND VENGEANCE, sexual transgression and mental torture: that's what it's all about. Set in the deceptively innocent confines of a remote country house, this year's Lowell House Opera. The Turn of the Screw, quickly disintegrates into a horribly perverted fairy tale. The opera is an adaptation of Henry James' story, with the libretto by Myfanwy Piper and the bewitchingly eerie music by Benjamin Britten...
...tale begins with nothing more complicated than the arrival of a new, kind, motherly governess charged with the task of looking after a charming pair of children. Margery Hellmold, with a strong, cultivated voice, rejoices in the fact that the children are so sweet, happy and loving. But we listen with a sense of forboding. For in the music there is a undercurrent of fear. And there is a sinister taint to the subtly gothic set designed by the well known author and illustrator Edward Gorey...
...Turn of the Screw is refreshingly simple and understated. It is an abstraction rather than an embellishment of the original tale This comparative starkness, us concentrate not on the twisting and turning the plot, but rather on the theme of the diabolical dimensions of evil. The ambiguous question remains whether the ghosts did physically return to harass the governess and her charges or whether they were a sort of mental residue that had not yet been erased from the minds of these abused children. The story never resolves this point, only concluding with the pessimistic realization that the good...