Putting a Still-Vexed Play in a Historical Context
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Shakespeare's most problematic play Â at least with respect to modern sensitivities Â receives an intelligent interpretation from Michael Radford and a superb cast.
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In London this summer there have been two notable efforts to reclaim the past. The ever-venturesome Shakespeare's Globe, whose very architecture is an act of historicism, staged three performances in late June ...
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Let the past put current conditions in perspective.
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A new initiative revives one of the great literary controversies: that the Bard was not who we think he was
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A. R. Gurneyâs play, revived respectfully by the Keen Company, remains an insightful mood piece but one thatâs perhaps best in its details.
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A spate of plays are examining both the political and human costs of the war in Iraq
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A new play suggests John Amery rebelled against his father's concealment of his Jewishness
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Set at a small Catskills  resort in the 1950s, when writers were blacklisted for alleged  Communist sympathies, Michael Elias&#39; play is shot through with  the kind of nostalgia that signals deep personal involvement.  But it leaves out the details of why this means something to  him, and so it fails to engage the audience with an emotional  back story.
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Deconstructing a pretty good joke, and the investment lesson held within.
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When Shakespeare wrote that the face of Cleopatra, the ancient queen of Egypt, &quot;beggar'd all description&quot;, he meant that words could not sum up her beauty.
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Tycho:  Page Two of "In The Service Of The Queen" will be available shortly, as he's taking the process very seriously.  Writing ridiculous poems used to be something I did with much more frequency, though it still happens occasionally. I did, at one point, seize the entire site to host a comic musical about TRON.  The urge just rears up sometimes, swiping at the air with its claws, and I must feed it tender, rhyming couplets to bed it back down.
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Jonathan Marc Shermanâs play, while agreeably acted and directed, feels like an internal monologue distributed among four characters.
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Cuckoldry is rarely as tedious or as raucous as it is in the East River Commediaâs revival of Fernand Crommelynckâs 1920 play.
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The first act of this play is so funny that at the intermission youâll be saying to yourself, âThey canât possibly keep this up.â And youâll be right.
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âPolitics of Passion: Plays of Anthony Minghellaâ consists of two short pieces that explore the limits of ordinary communication.
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It was an off-Broadway rave, but this play has more trite than bite
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Long before the curtain was raised in Birmingham on a play called âBehzti,â it was known that several elements of the production could cause offense to some members of the audience.