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☆ Watching ‘Barbie’ and Thinking About Death
  + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Amanda Taub | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
I really expected to love “Barbie.” As someone with proudly lowbrow taste in movies, I normally adore a big summer popcorn blockbuster, and every millennial woman I knew seemed to consider it a pop-nostalgia masterpiece. Instead, I left unsettled and frustrated: Something about the story seemed profoundly wrong to me, but I couldn’t articulate what it was. The play is set in a fictional totalitarian regime in which plays and literature are subject to strict censorship. That’s not because the government doesn’t respect the theater, a high-ranking censor named Mr. Celik explains to Adem, a young would-be playwright. Rather, it’s because it knows the power of stories to shape how people see the world, and to help them imagine how to change it.
Persons: “ Barbie, Sam Holcroft, Celik, Adem, Rather Organizations: Almeida Theater Locations: London
☆ Review: In London, a ‘Romeo and Juliet’ That Feels Startlingly New
  + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Matt Wolf | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
“Is love a tender thing?” Romeo asks early in the Shakespeare tragedy to which he and Juliet give their names. Not so much, according to the raw and riveting new production of “Romeo and Juliet” that opened Wednesday at the Almeida Theater here. It’s no surprise that the courtship between the noble Romeo — here played by the sweet-faced Toheeb Jimoh, from TV’s “Ted Lasso” — and the teenage Juliet will end in calamity. Her “Romeo and Juliet,” performed without an intermission, begins with the cast clawing feverishly at a stage wall, onto which are projected crucial lines from the prologue. But as if in haste to get straight to the meat of the play, the wall soon collapses to reveal the citizenry of Verona mid-combat.
Persons: Romeo, Juliet, Juliet ”, It’s, Romeo —, Toheeb Jimoh, Ted Lasso ” —, Rebecca Frecknall, Olivier, —, “, ” Frecknall, Tennessee Williams, ” Organizations: Almeida Locations: British, New York, Verona
☆ Juliet Stevenson Returns to ‘The Doctor,’ and the New York Stage
  + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Roslyn Sulcas | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
At the start of Robert Icke’s “The Doctor,” the actress Juliet Stevenson stands alone in a spotlight onstage. I’m a doctor.”As the play’s title character, a grammatically exacting neurosurgeon named Ruth Wolff, Stevenson will repeat those last two phrases many times as events unfold and Ruth’s clarity and intellectual certainties erode. Eventually they will transmute into something far more inchoate as her life unravels, and self-doubt begins to permeate her conviction that being a doctor is all that matters. In Icke’s version, the issues go beyond questions of medical ethics and religious affiliations to include identity politics and cancel culture. The play, and Stevenson, received rave reviews when “The Doctor” was first presented in 2019 at London’s Almeida Theater, where Icke was then the artistic director, and later after it transferred to the West End.
Persons: Robert Icke’s “, Juliet Stevenson, “, Ruth Wolff, Stevenson, unravels, Arthur Schnitzler’s, Bernhardi, ”, Icke, ” Michael Billington Organizations: Roman Catholic, London’s, Guardian Locations: New York, obduracy
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