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...ladies from the bowling club across the road have an important matter to discuss with Senior Constable Frank Taylor, the only cop in Stratford, 230 km east of Melbourne. Taylor greets Marge and Joan at the front fence of his house, which is next door to the brand-new police station. The grand opening is in a couple of weeks, and some bigwigs of policing are expected to attend. In charge of catering, the ladies want to check on numbers and whether Frank would prefer sandwiches or sausage rolls as the morning tea's centerpiece. Though Taylor...
...Contemplating morning-tea fare mightn't sound exciting. But it's not as though it's distracting Taylor from a baffling abduction case. With a population of 1,800, Stratford has the lowest crime rate per capita in Wellington Shire. "The youth of this town respect the town," says Taylor, and the older folk fill Stratford's three churches on Sundays...
...Squinting into the television lights, Bush later called on Fa?z? Woodville, 44, of Stratford, Pa., who cares for two sons at home. "Mr. President," she began, "I would like to know why it is that you and others in your administration keep linking 9/11 to the invasion of Iraq when no respected journalist or Middle Eastern expert confirmed that such a link existed." She got a burst of applause-this was no Bush-Cheney campaign audience. The President and other administration officials have often implied a link between Saddam Hussein and the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center...
...Stratford's style serves well for Lear, a robust and propulsive production of a play that is explicitly about great emotions. But the hard gloss reduces the subtler depths of Twelfth Night to mere giggles and kickshaws. Seeing these productions together may enable modern audiences to understand why earlier critics revered the Bard's tragedies but undervalued his comedies, overlooking their moral complexity and their glimpses of humiliation and pain in commoners' everyday life. The stress on low comic exaggeration also robs Twelfth Night of much of its social consequence: there is little sense that the battle between Sir Toby...
...role of Lear may be the grandest challenge for an actor, and Stratford Veteran Douglas Campbell is not quite up to it. He is thunderously imposing in the court scenes but not free enough when howling, half-maddened, on the heath. Otherwise, the energetic farewell production by Stratford Artistic Director John Hirsch is strikingly played, notably by Richard McMillan as Edgar, Lewis Gordon as Gloucester, and McKenna as a passionate, not just saintly, Cordelia. In an echo of Twelfth Night, Hirsch also features the Fool, whom Nicholas Pennell, unbearably mannered as Malvolio, plays with clearheaded reason and heartbreaking foresight. Together...