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...other films (The Householder, Shakespeare Wallah), Director James Ivory proves a precise and witty landscape artist. The Victorians may have traded in silks and spices, but, as Ivory shows, today's Elizabethans are in the culture export-import business. The proof is provided in contradictory fragments: a sitar sits near a hi-fi rig; a girl is dubbed a beauty queen with a rhinestone coronet that matches the jewel in her nose; groupies sleep on a temple's tessellated floors...
This play by Jakov Lind, an Austrian Jew who now lives in London, is a brutal, bitter, boring and unsubtle savaging of German-or is it Western?-culture. Fortunately, it is also a brilliant production, supervised by Central Park's old Shakespeare wallah, Joseph Papp...
SHAKESPEARE WALLAH. The vestiges of British influence in India color a wry, graceful comedy about a young actress (Felicity Kendal) who tours the provinces doing Shakespeare and finds her reallife romantic role more difficult to play...
SHAKESPEARE WALLAH. A brilliant and graceful comedy about a young actress (Felicity Kendal) who encounters romantic complications while touring India with a tatty Shakespearean company left over from the British colonial...
SHAKESPEARE WALLAH. A young actress (Felicity Kendal) encounters romantic complications while touring India with a tatty Shakespearean company left over from the British colonial era, in a brilliant and graceful comedy...