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...celebrity of this play can pose problems for those desiring to perform it. Hamlet has been staged so often, by such great talents, that any traditional treatment of the text is redundant. However, the sanctification of Shakespeare's words may make innovation a daunting process...
Director Zoe Mulford struggles with this dilemma in her production. Although she displays some creative and effective ideas, Mulford eventually capitulates to the intimidating power of the Bard's prose, letting the text dominate the actors...
...Lawyer's Guide to Payment Limitations, a $20 book for farmers (and their financial advisers) who want to bone up on ways to skirt the law that limited agricultural subsidies to $250,000 a person. A brochure for the 195-page opus boasts that it "contains annotated text, checklists, and sample pleadings" to help haymakers boost their government-supported income...
...beyond self-blame is a necessary understanding that the person who hurt you was wrong to do so. The person who chose to betray your trust, willfully or not, is the one who is to blame. No amount of rewriting the text of the incident will cause the hurt to disappear. No amount of quibbling over the legal definitions of when rape is "real" or not will erase the unambiguous pain in the survivor's heart...
Some flaws: the comic prologue seems superfluous, sandwiched as it is between the potent Palestinian and Israeli choruses. Singing in English, the Belgian chorus was unintelligible; Goodman's dense text demands supertitles. And one does miss some of Nixon's stirring climaxes. But none of this should impede Klinghoffer's success. Already the opera has been scheduled by its other co-producers -- the opera companies of Lyon; Glyndebourne, England; San Francisco; and Los Angeles -- as well as the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where it opens in September. This broad international debut will serve to confirm Adams, Goodman, Morris and Sellars...