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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Suzuki, Lear is less a king than a man, and the tragedy of Lear is less the loss of political power than the inevitable crumbling of the mind and body. Although the play was written before the development of modern medicine, it is, in this version, clearly a play about medical emergencies. In particular, it suggests that the howling storm from which Lear never recovers can best be understood as an internal event, perhaps a stroke. Nurses may object to the image of one of their number (Jeffrey Bihr) ignoring a patient while reading what seems to be a novel...
...tacky mural of the Lower Manhattan skyline served as backdrop. The band's version of Theme from New York, New York compensated in decibels for what it lacked in finesse. The ballroom of the thoroughly lived-in Omni Park Central Hotel was too small and too warm for the hundreds crammed together like rush- hour commuters on the A train. But the atmospherics last Tuesday night mattered not at all. Chants of "Duke! Duke! Duke!" alternated with cries of "Let's go, Mike!" And when Michael Dukakis paused before speaking, his usually constricted smile was as broad and welcoming...
...TALE OF LEAR. Japanese Avant-Garde Director Tadashi Suzuki and four U.S. regional theaters joinly create an incantatory short version of Shakespeare's tragedy, now at StageWest in Springfield, Mass...
Would the future flow that naturally from the past? Are the contours of a Dukakis Administration that easy to grasp? Would President Dukakis behave as if the U.S. were an elongated version of the Bay State? Does Dukakis fully understand the magnitude of the difference...
Overall Benston and cast make the audience stand up and salute their performance. Despite some minor defects, this version of A Soldier's Play is a major piece of entertainment...