Word: tempests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...version is director Michael Kahn's decision to relocate the play in 1866. Personally I'd prefer a Rinascimento Romeo to a Risorgimento one. But first love, youthful rambunctiousness and the generation gap (a favorite theme with Shakespeare, as witness Lear, Cymbeline, Othello, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest among others) are universal, and Kahn's choice is perfectly defensible. Shakespeare specified a Verona summer. In 1866, Verona, the episcopal see of the Venetia region abutting Austria, was a hotbed of turmoil, a pawn in the seven-week Austro-Prussian War, during which it was finally ceded by Austria...
...Tempest will be alternating at the Publick Theater with Salome all summer long, beginning with a preview performance of the Shakespeare romance on July 4. The Publick Theater, 1175 Soldiers Field Road in Allston, is an outdoor arena and a pleasant place to see a good show if the weather and cast are cooperative. Bring your own seat and wait for some other night if the weather is threatening. Tickets are $2 cheap...
...would appear, that Shakespeare's universal mirror reflects every social being. In other authors this capacity might properly have been termed vacillation. With Shakespeare, it is universality. In that most universal play The Tempest, a magician recites his-and his author's-wistful valedictory...
...Love's Labour's Lost anticipates As You Like It, Pericles anticipates The Tempest. Shipwrecks are what pass for plots here as the pseudoclassical hero washes up, island by island, it seems, across the Aegean and the Mediterranean, losing and finally regaining his wife and daughter in the process. Before their reunion, the wife becomes presumably the only matron in a tem ple of vestal virgins, the daughter certainly the only virgin in a brothel - peaks of survival which may outdo even Pericles' own. Shakespeare, the scholars say, wrote only the last three acts, and perhaps ought...
Director Yanne (who was promptly dubbed Chang Yanne by one Paris wit) wasted no time cashing in on the tempest in a China teacup. He coined a helpful publicity slogan: "The film that frightened 800 million Chinese." He also invented a few fake Chinese proverbs, attributing them, naturally, to Confucius. Sample axiom: "Marxist philosophy can very easily be reconciled with foie gras. "More seriously, he argued last week: "If the cinema is going to cause diplomatic crises, then it's time to worry about the mental health of the great powers...