7.3.08
Jacob's Pillow Gala makes the New York Sun
Mysterious Zelig shows up in front-page photo
7.1.08
MONTREAL DIARY
Live from the Montreal International Jazz Festival
7.1.08
WTF's NICHOLAS MARTIN TO HEADLINE FREE FORUM
[PRESS RELEASE] New WTF leader at Triplex, Sunday, July 13, 11 a.m., for REST OF THE STORY
6.27.08
[DANCE REVIEW] Mark Morris at Tanglewood
review by SETH ROGOVOY, Berkshire Living Magazine
6.24.08
Passenger air travel on brink of collapse
System headed for full-metal breakdown by end of year
6.24.08
Gas prices may usher in era of New Urbanism
Suburbs collapsing from internal contradiction of life built around cars, highways, and cheap gas
6.24.08
Ian McEwan joins Martin Amis in speaking out against Islamism
Rare writers willing to take a politically incorrect stand
6.24.08
BTF's Kate Maguire speaks at forum on Sunday, June 29
REST OF THE STORY event at Triplex Cinema
9.13.07
YOGA to be focus of forum on September 23
Berkshire Living's REST OF THE STORY event at the Triplex
6.19.08
New Mamet One-Act to Debut at Mahaiwe
[PRESS RELEASE] Benefit Performance for Berkshire Playwrights Lab June 25
6.19.08
[FILM REVIEW] ROMAN DE GARE
Review by Seth Rogovoy, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine
6.16.08
[MUSIC REVIEW] Jen Chapin at Club Helsinki
Review by Seth Rogovoy, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine
6.18.08
[DANCE REVIEW] Garth Fagan collaborates with Wynton Marsalis at Jacob's Pillow
Review by Seth Rogovoy, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine
6.17.08
Cafe Latino to celebrate opening of gallery, downtown arts festival
[PRESS RELEASE] Restaurant at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Mass., to display Latino artwork
6.17.08
Cafe Latino to celebrate opening of gallery, downtown arts festival
[PRESS RELEASE] Restaurant at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Mass., to display Latino artwork
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[THEATER REVIEW] ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA at SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY
8.10.07
Packer delivers a majestic and seductive Cleopatra
By Louise Kennedy, Boston Globe Staff
LENOX -- Let's just cut to the chase here. Tina Packer is absolutely magnificent as Cleopatra.
Any argument that the artistic director of Shakespeare & Company was arrogantly taking on a role she was too old for must simply fall away before Michael Hammond's powerful, passionate staging of "Antony and Cleopatra" -- and Packer's even more powerful and passionate performance at its center.
No, Packer is not young. But neither is Cleopatra, as Shakespeare's text frequently reminds us -- and, unlike our own youth-obsessed culture, neither the queen nor her creator sees a woman's maturity as an impediment to her seductive power.
When Cleopatra mentions her "salad days," she's not lamenting her lost youth, as wistful moderns might; she's mocking her younger self for being "green in judgment, cold in blood." Shakespeare's Cleopatra is a tastier dish than any starlet, not least because she's well seasoned.
Who better to play her, then, than a woman who herself has lived long and well? And, age aside, Packer displays the infinite variety that the role demands. By turns coquettish and majestic, giddy with love and blind with rage, Cleopatra must persuade us that she is at once superhumanly strong and humanly vulnerable. Part of her charm lies in its elusiveness, in her quicksilver darting from private passion to public power and back again.
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