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...Cabot House Drama Society ventures into modernist territory with a production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot. Though the show boasts many moments of fine acting, director Leo Cabranes-Grant does not quite bring this cast successfully through the play's admittedly difficult text...
Beckett was a friend and occasional secretary of his countryman and fellow High Modernist James Joyce, and Beckett's text echoes that author's characteristic wit and precision. In a sense the play is a dramatic translation of Joyce's project--the static narration of a moment of consciousness, undertaken merely for its own sake, without regard for the conventional rules of narrative or dramatic representation...
...dramatic but still significant way, computer technology is getting into the act, and I'm proud to say that TIME is heavily involved. This week we, together with our corporate cousins at Warner New Media in Los Angeles, are releasing a history of the Persian Gulf war that combines text, images and audio accounts of the conflict -- on a tiny 5-in. disc...
Othello is perhaps the most exciting of all Shakespeare's tragedies. The text is a tinderbox of cultural tensions between Black and White, Male and Female, East and West. But Judith Williams' Experimental Theater production loses the excitement entirely. Most of the players are as insensitive and lifeless as high school students forced to memorize and recite Shakespeare for a grade...
...only real change in the text--the conversion of the Duke of Venice to the Duchess of Venice--is a cutesy, annoying attempt at originality. Emilia's "ills that we do" speech to Desdemona in Act IV, scene 4, explains that men wield all the power in the play. More than simple cross-casting, Williams' decision is a script revision that helps to undermine the strength of Othello's clear and present gender tensions...