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Director Carlos Lapuerta adds a sense of creativity and imagination to the staging as we watch the plot and subplots smoothly unfold. Look for the predictable (and typically Shakespearean) swordfights, women dressing like men, hidden identities, a death or two, an ending with two marriage engagements, and the requisite comic relief--basic ingredients for 17th century drama. The play, however, is not dated since it grapples with timeless questions such as the nature of truth, dreams and illusion. Yet with a monologue that closes on "Since life is a dream at best, and even dreams themselves are dreams," and lines...
...made as apparent as it might be. Clad in a Pittsburgh Pirates cap and a matching outfit of sneakers, yellow Bermuda shorts, cheap black imitation kimono, and Hawaiian-print shirt. Caudle stands out against the simple costumes of the rest of the cast. And with an astute sense of comic timing and expression, he serves as effective fool and foil for the other characters, and as commentator for the audience on the events taking place around...
...House-Senate conference wrangled inconclusively over these matters. At one point, Massachusetts Republican Silvio Conte, a House conferee, eased the tension by donning a pair of comic eyeglasses. The impasse was broken by what some labeled a Democratic ploy. House negotiators agreed to drop the water projects, thus putting pressure on the Republicans to abandon contra funding. The Republicans finally relented; contra aid was cut off at least until next February, when a new vote can be taken if the President certifies that Nicaragua is still trying to subvert its neighbors in Central America. As for the Star Wars proposal...
...manhood with the rakish tilt of his sword sheath; Constable Dogberry (Christopher Benjamin) casually flings a purse in the air, and his deputy Verges catches it in his hat. The gags, however earthbound, raise laughs hearty enough to fill Broadway's biggest house. But around the surefire comic bits, Hands continues to deploy the human opposites only art can reconcile. By the end of the evening a friar can dance with a wench, and the dead come back to life, and lovers banter until they fall into each other's arms at dawn...
...winter of 1976, a telegram arrived for Graham Greene in Antibes. Would he come to Panama as the guest of its leader, Brigadier General Omar Torrijos Herrera? "I thought of it as only a rather comic adventure," recalls Greene, "inspired by an invitation from a complete stranger." But the comedy was to pass through surrealism to tragedy, and the stranger was to become an intimate...