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Posted by lindy on 7/24/2008, 5:25 am, in reply to " a "moving " Stephen Caffrey"
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I have just GOT to see this play.
Mel? Any chance you can video tape it for me? LOL
Just explain to Stephen that unless he plans on coming to Australia soon, this is the only way Im ever going to see an on-stage performance of his.
Tell him I said Pretty please with cherries on top LOL.
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: A strong start for Shakespeare Santa Cruz
: SHAKESPEARE SANTA CRUZ'S NEW HEAD champions
: classics, modern WORKS
: By Karen D'Souza
: Mercury News
: Article Launched: 07/23/2008 11:51:06 AM PDT
:
: Never was there a story of more wow than
: Marco Barricelli's inaugural season at the
: helm of Shakespeare Santa Cruz.
:
: Lest you think me guilty of exaggeration,
: consider that the acclaimed actor, who
: assumed leadership of the festival after
: Paul Whitworth stepped down, has brought a
: brash new sensibility to the repertory. This
: artistic director is dedicated to
: championing contemporary voices as well as
: the classical impulse.
:
: The past and the present echo each other,
: from the mad ecstasy of "Romeo and
: Juliet'' to the dark romance of Lanford
: Wilson's "Burn This'' (opening later)
: and Itamar Moses' postmodern homage to
: Molière in "Bach at Leipzig'' pricks up
: our ears in preparation for the rarely
: staged "All's Well that Ends Well''
: (opening later). On opening weekend, the
: festival's iconic redwood glen bristled with
: renewed vigor, alight with the promise of
: new possibilities.
:
: If writing about music is like dancing about
: architecture, then Itamar Moses is doing
: pirouettes over cupolas in "Bach at
: Leipzig.'' This is theatricality on
: steroids, a flat-out hysterical historical
: farce that will do anything for a laugh.
: Moses, a gifted young playwright whose
: "Yellowjackets'' debuts at the Berkeley
: Rep this fall, here composes an over-the-fop
: period romp that tickles the brain as hard
: as the funny bone.
:
: "Bach'' follows in the wake of the
: death of Johann Kuhnau in Leipzig in 1722.
: The powdered-wigs hit the fan as rival
: musicians (all named
: either Johann or Georg so we shall refer to
: their surnames for clarity's sake) gather to
: battle over who should ascend to the throne
: of the late great organist.'
:
: Each competitor emerges upon the stage like
: a chord in a melody. First the idealistic
: Fasch (the moving Stephen Caffrey), then the
: scheming Lenck (a wonderfully caustic Allen
: Gilmore), then the clueless Kaufmann (a
: priceless comic turn by Paul Vincent
: O'Connor) and so on, until Moses has
: mirrored the arc of a fugue with his
: characters. It's as if Moses had written
: "Amadeus,'' only with six Salieris and
: no Mozart.
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: http://www.mercurynews.com/arts/ci_9971881
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