Shylock
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“The Merchant of Venice”
The production of The Merchant of Venice that opened recently at CSC was among the most dismaying evenings I’ve had in the theater in recent memory. It’s particularly dismaying because the director, Igor Golyak, recently staged in the same space a play called Our Class from a script by Tadeusz Słobodzianek that I thought, though Continue reading
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All the Devils are Here
Patrick Page is blessed with a voice which tests the capacity of the woofer in your speaker system. Since we tend to link low, rumbly voices with power and associate power with its abuse, he has the natural equipment to play villains. And so he has, making a career of playing not only Shakespearean villains, Continue reading
Jeffrey Sweet--Making the Scene 