Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Other begins with a shimmery shot of one of the twin protagonists (played by Chris and Martin Udvarnoky) playing alone in the woods, the sun filtering down through the trees in that peculiarly captivating way that no cameraman can resist. The focus is misty and offputting: who of the audience who came for a thriller wants two indistinguishable twins romping in the woods...
Favored with dark good looks, an elegant wardrobe and an arsenal of jewelry, Princess Ashraf, 52-year-old twin sister of the Shah of Iran, has long traveled the world as a figure of enigmatic glamour. Sometimes there were troubles-as when French officials discovered her trying to take $2,260 in undeclared francs out of the country-but that only made her all the more a figure of mystery. Then, last spring, the respected Paris newspaper Le Monde alleged that a suitcase containing several kilos of heroin had been found among the princess's luggage at Geneva airport...
...helps that this is one of Shaw's finer plays. While Barbara Undershaft (Jane Alexander), who does the Christian God's goodly work among the poor, owns the play's title, it is her munitions tycoon of a father, Andrew (Lee Richardson), wielding the twin thunderbolts of "money and gunpowder," who is the capitalistic Zeus. Shaw himself had a Caesar complex. He was fascinated by absolute power and that explained his deplorable temporary enthusiasms for Hitler and Stalin. But his Undershaft is of another breed. This merchant of death is also an apostle of life...
...essence of performance, of mask wearing and play, and the spectacle has a curiously private appearance, as though the secret history of a polymorphic, unrepressed child were being enacted by an adult. (His narcissism is such that Jagger married himself, or a close facsimile: Bianca Jagger could be his twin...
Even if it were run with the decorum of a D.A.R. meeting, the sheer logistics of bringing it all together are incredibly elaborate. Miami Beach, a normally garish but placid corridor of resorts and retirement (the median age of permanent residents is 65), is looking forward to the twin bill with a booster's pride and a bit of trepidation...