Word: textually
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shakespeare's play The Two Gentlemen of Verona proves that even the illustrious Bard wrote trite plays. Nevertheless, the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian Theater Workshop manages to redeem this textual mess, and director Artie Wu creates an enjoyable production...
...Textual editing...
...took an hour's worth of textual cuts, the leading man's miraculous survival of a freak onstage accident, and blessings by five Shinto priests, but James Clavell's epic musical has arrived...
...Bishop favors innovation rather than textual adherence. Her crosscasting of Ariel and Sebastian, the brother of Alonso, King of Naples certainly holds some potential for subversive entertainment. But in this production of The Tempest, that potential is never realized. The fault lies not with the interpretations themselves, but with sheer carelessness and bad acting. What the text clearly demands, the actor fail to supply...
This is essentially a textual flaw; Fox's rendering of the play is extremely faithful to the playwright's vision. The set is minimal but artful; all the stage directions are followed closely with one exception; the performers effectively adhere to their particular temperaments as defined by the playwright; and the speech is simple, plain and relatively unaffected...