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...would have been too painfully obvious. Ford's Romeo is called Giovanni and he is played by an actor named Stan Nevin who has half of Leonard Whiting's credentials-a good physique-while lacking a strong or even passable voice for Ford's verse. Giovanni loves his sister Annabella, whose combination of wraithlike charm and physicality Lucinda Winslow succeeds very well in conveying. (Lucy Winslow, Loebgoers will remember, was superb in Dirty Hands. ) The worm of incest causes not only the ruin of two families and the death of both sister and brother, but also a few assorted stabbings...
...PLAY'S bawdiness and humor are over-emphasized in this production: the citizen Donado (William Fuller) could have fumed at his foolish nephew Bergetto without blustering like one of the magistrate-midgets who greet Judy Garland in the land of Oz. Geralyn Williams as Putana, Annabella's buxom attendant, is a parody, in every stagy sense of the term, of the ribald nurse. Maeve Kinkead as Hippolita-the sex-starved Wronged Woman of the piece-storms around like a steam engine out of control until releasing the last painful gasps of her already overstrained voice on a mobile platform which...
...employees (the oldest is 24) who packed their gear to return to Harnes last week had none at all. Some were already planning next winter's work and games. "I'd like to spend the whole winter skiing and working in this chalet," says 16-year-old Annabella Zozzolo. "All my buddies want to come to work for Duhamel's. I can understand why," said one of the group's four young men. Duhamel himself, who eats and skis with his employees when in St. Sorlin, claims that those who have had their month...
Greatest Villain. For the most part, Elwin lets the letters speak for themselves; they provide fascinating glimpses into a marriage in which the very emotional vocabularies of the partners were almost totally different. When Annabella first met Byron in 1812, he had just published Childe Harold and was the hero of London society. Annabella reported to her mother that she found him "a very bad, very good man ... He is sincerely repentant for the evil he has done, though he has no resolution (without aid) to adopt a new course of conduct and feeling." It took her no time...
Somehow, after two years of intermittent correspondence and one rejected proposal by Byron, they blundered into marriage. ("It never rains but it pours," said Byron dryly to a companion when he received Annabella's note of acceptance.) Strangely, Byron was the more upset of the two when the marriage broke up. While Annabella was congratulating herself on escaping "from the greatest Villain that ever existed," Byron was writing pleading and apparently sincere letters asking for a reconciliation. But Annabella by that time was a woman with an obsession: in self-justification, she had already begun assembling the letters...