Reviews for American Shakespeare Center touring company Performances
Review: Measure for Measure by American Shakespeare Center touring company
by Michael Meigs
Published on March 29, 2011
The real comic turn in this piece is Denice Burbach as Elbow the constable. She prances, flails, flings malapropisms and expostulates for all the world like Daffy Duck, though without Daffy's juicy speech impediment.
The towering American colonial revivalist preacher Jonathan Edwards is remembered today principally for the hair-raising imagery in his 1741 sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, including especially his fierce warning, The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy …
Review: As You Like It by American Shakespeare Center touring company
by Michael Meigs
Published on March 25, 2011
The ecstasy of the American Shakespeare Center's staging of As You Like It was that of infatuation, the hypnotic attraction of love.
"Restless Ecstacy," the title of the 2010-2011 tour by American Shakespeare Center players, comes from the Scottish play, III, 2, in which the grim thane uses the phrase to describe his tormented sleeplessness after killing King Duncan. The ASC troupe didn't do their Macbeth at the University of Texas in Austin this week, but their staging of As You Like It corresponded fully to both promises of the tour title. Noise, music, performance and joviality greeted the audience …