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...going to put up with federal blackmail," State Sen. Joseph Wineke (D-Verona) said in a phone interview from his Wisconsin office yesterday. "Some state has got to take a stand...
...People of Verona...
...people's inability to accept ordinariness, their yearning for mythic and epic significance. But it thwarts itself by hanging its plot on a somber and respectful treatment of the abrupt sexual infatuation and love-suicide pact of a pair of 13-year-olds. Shakespeare could bring it off in Verona. In Guare's rural Sicily, it seems mere wind. Mae West couldn't make it worse, and Richard Burbage couldn't make it better...
This production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona makes an effort to cast Asian-American actors, and six of the ten performers in the play are Asian-Americans. In any event, the interpretation does not appear to be affected by the race of the players. Wu's decision may have been calculated simply to increase the number of minority actors...
...Gentlemen of Verona, edited by Wu to a manageable hour and one half, is saved by fine direction and an excellent cast. It is neither Shakespeare's best, funniest nor most profound play, and it is very predictable. But this production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona highlights those moments which are worth seeing...