Word: capulets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...engaging one-man show, Acting Shakespeare, at the Charles Playhouse for the next three weeks, the actor performs soliloquies of some 20 characters, from Macbeth to Sir John Falstaff to Juliet Capulet. With parts from The Tempest, a romance, and several history plays, McKellen covers all the theatrical bases from tragedy to low comedy. He even throws in Sonnet XX, for poetic justice...
...think little of robbing, and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking," as well as Balzac's "Behind every great fortune there is a crime" and Fred Allen's "A gentleman never strikes a lady with his hat on." There are quizzes: 1. Was Romeo a Capulet or a Montague? 2. Which Wright brother made the first flight at Kitty Hawk? 3. What word has six successive consonants? 4. How many countries does Brazil border?* And lists of products that need inventing, like a device that reminds the forgetful driver in the car ahead that...
...double-duty casting doesn't stop here. Lord Capulet and Tybalt are both played by Kanuth. At least these two are on the same side of the feud. Kanuth is excellent as "the fiery Tybalt," but Lord Capulet comes across as perhaps just a bit too fiery in this production...
...Capulet clan, Caroline Bicks threatens to steal the show as the Nurse. Her ceaseless babbling and uncultured mannerisms are as amusing as they are skillfully executed. Her gesticulation, when not bordering on mugging, is equally entertaining...
...costumes are not Elizabethan, but rather more like Adams House, circa 1986. It is perhaps for this reason that such things as the playing of "Freak Out" over a ghetto blaster at the Capulet's party doesn't seem incongruous...