Artfully skewered
The NY Times beautifully skewers the new Kevin Kline production of King Lear:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/08/theater/reviews/08lear.html
They provide several nice phrases suitable for jazzing up display ads in next Sunday's Theatre section ("he is an actor of a high order, and some finely wrought moments glitter like multifaceted gems") but much of the review is populated by pointed jabs ("the production is riddled with holes where feelings should be").
It's lovely prose throughout, and leaves me undecided whether I'd want to go - and see Kline in a loincloth! - or not.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/08/theater/reviews/08lear.html
They provide several nice phrases suitable for jazzing up display ads in next Sunday's Theatre section ("he is an actor of a high order, and some finely wrought moments glitter like multifaceted gems") but much of the review is populated by pointed jabs ("the production is riddled with holes where feelings should be").
It's lovely prose throughout, and leaves me undecided whether I'd want to go - and see Kline in a loincloth! - or not.