Word: tempests
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Fiftyish but still game, Rose was back at Cincinnati's Gayety Burlesk last week. But the beat at the Gayety was a dirge to the vanishing world of burlesque. In its rowdy, 60-year history, the old grind house featured such titillating favorites as Tempest Storm, Trudine, The Quiver Queen, and Moonbeam McSwine (complete with an armful of randy piglets). Like most such houses, it has been reduced in recent years to skin flicks, separated by the geriatric gyrations of faded strippers. Now the Gayety is being torn down to make way for a parking lot. To mourn...
Worse, says Looney Lewis: "Some of the top strippers these days are guys with silicone treatment around the hips and chest." Mourns Cece of the flaming tassels: "It will never be the same again. I'll never be a Tempest Storm or a Lily St. Cyr. Burlesque is dead...
...that weren't enough, The Tempest itself is one of Shakepeare's most difficult plays to understand. Attempts at interpretation invariably fail, explaining one-aspect of the story at the expense of some equally important part, Calling The Tempest a comedy, though it is humorous in parts, ignores the gripping with which Prospero works out his revenge against his brother Antonio, who usurped the dukedom of Milan from Prospero...
...these obstacles, Eric Davin's production of The Tempest at the Loeb Ex is a thoroughly enjoyable theatrical experience that overcomes the handicaps of language and modest staging with animated performances by each member of the cast. All that suffers is the ambivalence (comedy or not?) engendered by the play itself-an unavoidable loss necessary in order to compensate for the difficulties of language and staging...
...production, under the direction of Laurence Bergreen, exaggerates the comedy and practically explodes with motion and exuberance which create both setting and character in the absence of props and costumes. In the opening scene, the ship caught in the tempest in depicted by the men in the cast standing in a circle with arms linked tossing about as the women create the waves and wind that rock the ship. This ingenuity characterizes the rest of the play...