Word: vivat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...VIVAT! VIVAT REGINA...
...insist on seeing "the new Neil Simon" or nothing is to enlist in New York's legion of the theatrically self-deprived. In reality, Broadway is a pageant with something to beguile every eye. The latest treat is Vivat! Vivat Regina!, a vivid tapestry of passion, blood, majesty and death...
...fascinated by the drama of choice and its costs. In Bolt's A Man for All Seasons, Sir Thomas More had to choose between his conscience and his King. The queenly star-crossed haters of Vivat! must choose between their hearts and their crowns. Mary counts the world well lost for love and loses her head. Elizabeth enfrosts her sexual urges to make her throne secure. The bitterness and the poignance are that Mary sees in Elizabeth the empire she might have commanded, and Elizabeth sees in Mary the personal fulfillment she might have gained...