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...enough: the King's impatience with his wife, Catherine of Aragon, in providing him with a male heir; his divorce of Catherine to marry Anne; his break with the Pope over the divorce and his establishment of the Anglican Communion as his own personal church. With all this as backdrop, Gregory foregrounded scenes of calumny and chicanery, of paternal pimping and near-incest, to create an international best-seller that cried out to be visualized. Indeed, the novel was made into a 2003 TV movie, with Jodhi May and Natascha McElhone as Anne and Mary, which was to be released...
...movie, is understated. It has no real plot to speak of, and to the extent that it moves at all, it moves slowly. The film is much like the sleepy Israeli town where the police band finds itself: few real events occur to punctuate the otherwise unchanging backdrop. The solitude of the town, the quiet of the film, is interrupted only by scattered dialogue and moments of fleeting connection between characters. Ultimately, we are left with the sense that we are probably all a little stranded. Self-reflection often takes place only when we encounter others; only when faced with...
...with the audience and not with the song. Staring out into the middle-distance most of time, she was just phoning it in. But back on stage half an hour later was a whole other Winehouse. On a set stripped bare - just her, her band and a red velvet backdrop - she belted out Love is a Losing Game in that raw, smoky way she does, making eyes at the TV cameras and sucking the audience into her fragile, tortured world. She may not have picked up a Brit, but she was rewarded with the loudest applause of the night. Winning...
...thoughts of the characters. A jazz trio stationed on the corner of the stage interprets the emotional state of the players throughout the performance, constantly pulling the audience in. The set itself allows the audience to become part of the production. The performance is set against a painted backdrop depicting a mirror image of the audience—but with empty chairs. During the play’s famous funeral oratory, no actors are on stage except for Antony, Brutus, and Lucius, effectively making the audience play the part of the Roman citizens. The production is highlighted by some solid...
...foiled its potential charm. The Bread and Puppet Theater did perform two kids-geared matinees over the weekend—maybe their aesthetic benefited from such thematic simplification.The production had several other redeeming qualities. The action—or lack thereof—played out before a gorgeous painted backdrop of a forest. Throughout “The Divine Reality Comedy,” the company made excellent use of exquisite two-dimensional cut-outs of clouds, stars and faces. Puppetry and design is clearly the group’s forte. A particularly impressive feat of costuming surfaced when...