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The play recounts two parallel plots which merge in the conclusion. While the peasants of the wee Spanish hamlet of Fuente Ovejuna groan under the rapine yoke of their wicked overlord, Fernando Gomez de Guzman, that same overlord joins in a rebellion against their Catholic Majesties, Ferdinand and Isabella, of...
"Here, they say `wicked' and `awesome.' At home we maybe say `cool' and we mix in a lot of Spanish words," says Galindo, who also admits to occasionally saying "y'all."
The very slow first act is saved by the fine quality of the acting. E.G. Marshall plays a cranky Jacob Brackish with vigor and sternness. His Brackish is complex enough that you're never quite sure whether he is difficult because he's malicious or just because he has high...
Meanwhile, Culkin himself acts precociously. He realizes that casual deadpan in a ten-year-old looks far more sinister than sidelong glances and wicked cackles, and so plays it straight. Culkin's calm in turn forms the perfect foil to the frenzied indignation of Wood, his fearless adversary. Splattered with...
That quality is Short Cuts' great redeeming grace. But it is Altman's refusal to linger on it sentimentally, his joyous appreciation of his actors' wicked inventiveness, and everyone's passionate, quick-witted desire to expose the vagaries of human behavior under quotidian pressure that simply sweep you up and...