[That can take some doing.] One year, for example, ... I was doing a 19th-century show by (Russian playwright Alexander) Ostrovsky and 'As You Like It.' One designer had to please both plays. |
After all, Shakespeare wrote his plays for modern dress, and people have been doing it ever since. The idea of trying to recreate some historical version of the play seems to me to be very dangerous and to head for some kind of dead, museum idea of what theater is. |
And we're 35 minutes away from Silicon Valley, |
He saw love as a radical challenge to the identity of men and women, ... His popularity on the screen is no accident: His take on sexuality, gender and love seems to speak to the way we see ourselves at the end of the 20th century. |
to forgive and be forgiven, [but] the shadow of a domineering patriarch continues to loom over the family. |
We're not allowed to leave anything there |
We've discovered, |