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A Truly Shakespearean Antony and Cleopatra |
| Section: THE ARTS / THEATER |
| Author: Herb Greer |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 10/1/1987 |
| Size: 1,165 Words, 6,763 Characters |
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It is comforting to visit the past through a Shakespeare play. There are many ways of doing it. You can choose to let the poetry wash over you, surging through your emotions like the themes of some immense and thrilling symphony. Or you may prefer to marvel and clap at the director's flair for spectacle, and cluck at the neat slotting of the work into an intellectual-cum-political fashion of the day. This is the tenor of most "modern-dress" productions of Shakespeare, looking and sounding as often as not like the squash of a classical tune into Tin Pan Alley. If you are a commercial producer you might allow your leading actor to exploit Shakespeare in the hoary nineteenth-century manner, framing him with mediocrities and beginners, making it easy for him to wring wonder and applause (and m...
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...Roman lover unfold their mutually consuming desire, and find themselves crushed in the great events of their time, the pageant compels a stunned belief that when these two loved and died, all those centuries ago, it could have been this way - or somehow very like it. For the London visitor with a taste for theater, there are plenty of shows to be skipped this season. This is not one of them.
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