Word: hershman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sometimes worked well, depending upon the actor. Jonathan E. Alsop slid versatilely from the pomposity of the Grand Duke to the kind-heartedness of the peasant Lavrenti. And Stephen Kent neatly changed gears from the obsequious Fat Prince to the macho Corporal to the doddering Old Man. However, Daniel Hershman was dismayingly flat, whether as the governor, monk, or Shauwa...
...about Darwinism and the expectations of man in history. Yet the drama itself doesn't compress this: it's downright expansive--not an easy effect when your setting is the Garden of Eden and you want to speak simply but not so simply that everything seems symbolic. Director Rob Hershman works with the expansiveness, and when he gets such fine performances out of Richard Bangs and Adam and Catherine Dean as Eve, what emerges is something that shovels ideas less than it rolls out words in a glorious ramble...
...little action and a lot of talk. Again--when you have Paradise as the scene the danger lies in seeming ponderous. Here the solution--as in, say, "The Blue Angel"--is sensuality: it takes care of fluidity, momentum and vividness in a fell swoop if it's used right. Hershman does, by making his serpent a double image, played by two women, Gypsy Knocks and Victoria Kins. They never stop moving, swaying and undulating in a coiling mass that envelopes a fascinated Eve in the sexuality of knowledge and mortality...
...members of the cast do fine jobs. Ellen Olian-Bate as the aging but still passionate Marchioness of Tuscany was probably the most professional. William Fuller delivered his lines too quickly and mechanically at first but later did very well as the ridiculous Doctor Genoni. Henry's councillors Robert Hershman, Brian Powers and John Rudman seemed to capture the foolishness of their roles...