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Three things salvage the production: the visual ingenuity of Director David Giles, who, for example, opens this play about the loss of loved ones and renewal through fresh love with an image of autumnal leaves being swept aside; Edward Atienza's bravura performance as Feste the fool, repeatedly given center...
It could be, of course, that advancing years and their own septennial celebrity have made the subjects unwilling to spill their guts to their show-biz Mr. Chips. Kids say the darndest things; adults repress them. Only in an extreme case--like that of Neil, a sensitive scholar who has...
Next, his young manhood is retailed at too great length, in a mournful chronicle of false starts, wrong turnings, jobs he did not get, jobs he regretted taking. Schneider alludes too briefly to two fundamental debates: between devotees of an external, technical approach to acting and believers in the Actors...
Richardson's women had some trouble keeping matters carefree and cool. "They started out thinking they were going to be safe," she says. "Then they got caught, and they ended up caring about him." Richardson found that this happened even to veteran Other Women on their third or fourth affair...
As for the party, Maimonides counsels, "Strive for moderation in all character traits . . . except for seeking honor, where the pious choose complete abstinence." The guest of honor would surely have stayed home. Rabbi Nisson Wolpin, Editor Jewish Observer New York City