Word: elizabethan
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...Anouilh's script can certainly support a minimalist production, this one struggles to establish any sense of atmosphere. It is difficult to forget that one is in the middle of Adams House. The costuming is confusing: most costumes are appropriately spare, but they range incongruously from a generic pink Elizabethan dress for Harrington to the fashionable ensemble of v-neck t-shirt, flat-front chinos, black leather loafers and silver watchtopped tastefully by a simple red shawlfor Abu-Ayyash...
...still occasionally noodle around playing Elizabethan ballads on my soprano recorder. But I do this in private because the recorder hasn't really been a "party" instrument since about 1685 - hence my renewed interest in the piano. Just as every sociable grownup should be able to cook at least one tried-and-true meal, shouldn't she be able to play at least one song from memory, just in case she bumps into a baby grand...
...still occasionally noodle around playing Elizabethan ballads on my soprano recorder. But I do this in private because the recorder hasn't really been a "party" instrument since about 1685--hence my renewed interest in the piano. Just as every sociable grownup should be able to cook at least one tried-and-true meal, shouldn't she be able to play at least one song from memory, just in case she bumps into a baby grand...
...weak and weepy interpretation of Hamlet was poor, there was a general admiration of the quality of the production in general. Thanks to Rylance, London theater elites seemed to heave a collective sigh of relief at the realization that the fledgling Globe will not simply become an Elizabethan Disneyland attraction but will be the site of serious, star-studded productions. - David Kornhaber...
Athenians of the 5th century B.C. attended plays by Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles. Londoners in Elizabethan England enjoyed the plays of Shakespeare. Americans in the 21st century watch Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and Survivor. Does anyone else find this disturbing and frightening? (THE REV.) FRANK L. HOSS Bourbonnais...