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Re: a "moving " Stephen Caffrey

Posted by Mel on 7/24/2008, 6:46 am, in reply to "Re: a "moving " Stephen Caffrey"
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Believe me, if I could somehow sneak in a video camera and tape this I would in a heartbeat. Stephen's character is really the glue that holds this play together, and he more than does it justice. Just wish you all could be there with me.

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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
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: Never was there a story of more wow than
: Marco Barricelli's inaugural season at the
: helm of Shakespeare Santa Cruz.
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: 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.
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: 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.
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: 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.
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: "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.'
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: 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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