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Nora Theater presents The Private Ear, a production compelling enough to appeal to the most disheartened romantics. Director George Reyes has breathed commendable theatrical intensity into this script, sparing the audience from a potentially boring one-hour circus...
...underworld groupie who is appreciative of their style and implicated in their actions but still one ironic step outside their souls, and who is ready to analyze every movement and moment in 484 pages of headlong streetwise orotundity and subordinate clauses even longer than this one. Tom Stoppard's script daringly dumps that voice (there is no voice-over narration) and puts its trust in other eloquences: Doctorow's story and dialogue, the actors' faces, Benton's tactful direction...
...report to the Russian parliament early in October that he had tried a dozen times to reach the vacationing President Boris Yeltsin at the Black Sea resort of Sochi to ask what was to be done about a looming crisis, but failed. In reality as in fantasy, the script was singularly unfunny. As the first snows start to fall and a difficult winter looms, Russia is paralyzed by a web of incompetence. The wave of hope that swept the country at the fall of the Communist Party is giving way to resignation, despair and bitterness. The Keystone Kops behavior...
Siegler sets this play in modern-day Venice. The actors wear contemporary dress, and cordless telephones replace the messengers in Shakespeare's script. The set is simple, with a table and three chairs serving as a cafe, a chair set aside as part of Shylock's house and a table upon which sit three treasure chests...
While this production, as a whole, fails to bring Shakespeare's script to new levels of theatrical excellence, it is worth seeing for several good performances and solid direction. Shakespeare's story is a timeless commentary on prejudice and hatred, and Siegler's interpretation, though not exceptional, deserves attention...