Word: tudors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plot, no set, no Look-Ma-I'm-a-swan costumes--just a stageful of virtuoso dancers who hurtle through angular steps and abstract poses that evoke a limitless universe of emotions. RUNNERS-UP Esplanade by Paul Taylor; Jardin aux Lilas by Antony Tudor...
...find Marechal, Boeldieu, Rosenthal (Marcel Dialio), a Jewish couturier, and Cartier (Julien Carette), a music hall performer comfortable in a beautiful German setting. When the camera pans, Tudor manors and a sweeping countryside grace the vista. Similarly, while the camp is a POW camp, the prisoners are fed, exercised and treated reasonably well...
...profane", the Carmina Burana has some of the most profane lyrics performed to what sounds like medieval church music. Look out too for the inventiveness of new scenes added to give more depth to Henry VIII's court and life. And definitely keep your eye out for the full Tudor costumes and the large and opulent sets, all in the best style of what we might expect from a historical play. More than just an assault of the senses however, Gfaller also promises to leave the audience "emotionally affected" and forced to re-evaluate their own positions on honor...
...earl who could trace his roots to a time before William the Conqueror? And what if, unlike the man from Stratford-upon-Avon, we had an undeniable record of his education--a degree from Oxford University and a solid grounding in the law that would explain the plenitude of Tudor legalese in the plays? Again, unlike the Stratford man, this nobleman would have once resided in Venice, the site of several plays. An able soldier, our earl would also be the nephew of a pioneer in the form of sonnet we now call Shakespearean; another uncle translated Ovid's Metamorphoses...
...still in the nine-bedroom, seven-fireplace Tudor mansion. He must still be the Governor...