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John (Karl Saddlemeyer), Geoffrey (Richard Claflin) and Richard Lionheart (Adam Geyer), Henry's sons, provide both comic relief and a tragic element as they struggle for the throne. Saddlemeyer's fatuous complacence amuses the audience: "I'm Father's favorite--that's what counts." Claflin shows resentment at being the proverbial second son by spitting out every sarcastic line. Geyer shows the roots of Richard's Oedipal dilemma early in the play with his seemingly inexplicable hatred of his mother...
Harvard's production, under the direction of Gina Fried-Miller, wisely sustains the light and comic aspects of the story and places it in a traditional context--1840's Great Britain. Conductor Sarah Hicks sets the mood with Gilbert and Sullivan's time-honored "God Save The Queen...
After a five-year wait, comics enthusiasts who don't regularly read Raw, the underground comics' best magazine, can at last read the second half of Maus, Art Spiegelman's Holocaust comic book...
...Comic books, perhaps more than any other medium, seem designed for the mixture of biography and autobiography displayed in Maus. The comic book structure allowed Spiegelman to segue easily from one reminiscence to another and from past to present to imagination without confusing the reader...
...Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, presents a refreshingly non-traditional interpretation that fans of convention may find upsetting. Every aspect of the production works to further Hamlet's pain and frustration, warrant his indecisiveness and inevitably drive him to madness. The addition of modern gestures and effects offer comic relief from this frightening society while adding to the overall disjointedness of Hamlet's life...