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THEATER Juliet Stevenson's U.S. debut is triumphant...
...BOTTOM LINE: In her U.S. stage debut, British actress Juliet Stevenson proves she is truly, madly, deeply talented...
...approximates the emotional clarity of Vanessa Redgrave, the assertive power of Judi Dench and the braying, spiteful fun of Maggie Smith -- and adds an androgynous beauty suited equally to Shakespeare's pants parts and to the contemporary feminist dialectics of the vehicle she has chosen for her U.S. stage debut, Howard Barker's Scenes from an Execution...
...play, also in its U.S. debut, opens with Stevenson sitting near a naked male lover, calmly sketching -- and discoursing on the merits of -- his thighs and butt. She plays a Venetian Renaissance painter with a gift for epic scale who is commissioned, despite her gender, to commemorate the city's most glorious naval victory. The city fathers want patriotic myth. She insists on painting the horrors of battle, the pathos of the defeated and the dehumanization of the victorious, and sees this as woman's contribution to culture. "No man," she remarks, "honestly hates murder...
Referring to his debut as an 8 year old Mustardseed in A Midsummer Night's Dream...