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...making My Left Foot, he stayed in his wheelchair even when not on camera and taught himself to paint with his foot. For The Last of the Mohicans he learned how to skin animals and shoot muskets. In New York for The Age of Innocence, he checked into his Victorian-style hotel as Newland Archer and wandered the city dressed in 1870 clothes. For In the Name of the Father, he lost a substantial amount of weight. In preparation for the scene where his character is battered into making a confession, he stayed awake for three nights, during which director...
...Woman of No Importance. Through March 13. A rare revival of one of Oscar Wilde's early comedies of Victorian Society. Lyric Stage, 140 Clarendon St., Boston. Wed.-Fri., 8 p.m. Saturday, 5 and 8:30 p.m. Sunday and Thursday, 2 p.m. $17-$26. Call 437-7172 for tickets and more information...
...once-quiet corridors of the archaeology wing of Harvard's own Anthropology department, a Victorian sex farce is unfolding. The colorful characters include a foreign professor with a bawdy sense of humor and seven female graduate students whose dainty ears cannot endure naughty words...
...standard of intellectual debate in thiscountry is very low," Paglia said, She attributedthis standard to "sanctimonious, humanitarian,white, bourgeois, Victorian" attitudes of mostcontemporary humanities professors...
David Murin's costumes and Rogers Meeker's lighting ably round out the rest of this production's design. Murin sticks mostly to standard Victorian fare but produces some remarkable effects with it, most notably Algernon's dressing gown and the sublime hats worn by Gwendolen and Lady Bracknell in the first act. Meerker's lighting is particularly notable in the second act, when the garden appears infused with sunshine...