Word: texts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JIMMY SHINE. Playwright Murray Schisgal is lucky to have Dustin Hoffman's ingratiating stage personality working for him in this play-which is somewhat like a book from which the text has been excised and only the footnotes published...
Visually, the magazine can hardly be faulted. The art and photography is rich with color and imagination, providing a provocative-almost psychedelic-accompaniment to the text. In the pre-election issue, for example, television's importance in a campaign year was illustrated by a cover photo showing a woman thrusting her baby forward to be kissed by a politician. Ignoring the infant, the politician is pressing his lips to the lens of a nearby television camera...
...actors, with the exceptions of Act IV scene i and Act V throughout. The direction failed to take to heart Debussy's insistence that an improper gesture would mar a scene; the actors' gestures were perilously close to woodenness, which is at odds with the demands of the text. The quality of the singing was thoroughly satisfying. Roger Lucas as Pelleas and Barbara Hocher as Melisande were the weakest; Ben Lyon as Golaud was very fine in an extremely taxing role, but Mark Pearson as Arkel was the finest singer of the evening. Cheryl Bibbs as Yniold effectively delivered...
Frankly Wicked. In the past, some directors have coped with Shakespearean plays by cutting the text. Sir Laurence Olivier's unforgettable 1946 film of Henry V included only half the original; Franco Zeffirelli's recent Romeo and Juliet cut more than half. To Director Hall, 38; the best solution was to leave Shakespeare's words alone. Since A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of the bard's shortest plays, he cut only ten lines...
EVER SLEEP with an elephant? Adam does in Norman Dietz' Apple Bit, the second of the three Lowell House absurdities. But, in order to follow the text from Genesis, he jilts the pachyderm before the playlet begins in favor of the more renowned Eve. After all, Eve has her points. As played by Leesa Freedman, Eve tends to do a bump and a grind when a mere bump would suffice. Nevertheless, she's an amusing sharp-tongued every-woman, who insists that her husband stand up to God like a man. And Eve favors hiding after the apple because...