If you’re looking for a recipe for a successful revival of Oscar Wilde’s 1895 masterpiece, a major ingredient has to be Brian Bedford. This British born Canadian resident is among the world’s greatest actors of classical material, tragic and comical. In comedy, he has no peer. The career path he’s chosen since 1959 when he […]
Archives for January 14, 2011
Anna Deavere Smith
Back in the 1990s, when I first saw Fires in the Mirror, a play about a conflict in which African Americans and Orthodox Jews battled in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, I wanted to meet Anna Deavere Smith. That play was amazing, it broke new ground and introduced like a mini-explosion a talented, gifted, […]
Red Bastard
Something about diligently recording your thoughts in a notepad seems profoundly absurd when there’s a grossly overweight man-demon wandering around nearby, provoking people at random with his bulges and pointy parts. The odd man out in this scenario, as you may well guess, is the note-taker. I mean, what is this, a philosophy lecture? There’s […]