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Jim Kates

Book Review: “The Barcelona Brothers” — A Nasty Piece of Spanish Noir

International noir novels no longer revolve around exotic police procedurals or gimmicky detective stories. They aim to pound readers into the pavement.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: Carlos Zanón, John Cullen, noir, Other Press, Spanish-literature, The Barcelona Brothers

Theater Review: A Sweet and Contagious “Present Laughter”

Actor Jack Koenig never flags in the Peterborough Players production of “Present Laughter,” and around him in his London studio-flat swirls a churning world of impertinent employees and past and present loves that would do Kaufman and Hart proud.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Gus Kikkonen, Noel-Coward, Peterborough Players, Present Laughter

Theater Review: “The Admirable Crichton” Entertains Via a Sprightly Stiff Upper Lip

“The Admirable Crichton” premiered in 1902, but the Peterborough Players bring this comedy about class division off admirably — as classy theater, not anthropology.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Gus Kikkonen, J. M. Barrie, Peterborough Players, The Admirable Crichton

Theater Review: A Madcap “39 Steps”

Patrick Barlow’s script and Chuck Morey’s direction of the Peterborough Players production turn “The 39 Steps” into a madcap, Marx-Brothers-style of zaniness barreling along at farce-speed until the very last moments.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Peterborough Players, The-39-Steps

Theater Review: “I Do! I Do!”— Predictable Musical Sentimentality

You leave the matrimonial musical “I Do! I Do!” humming its banalities.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Beverly Ward, I Do! I Do!, Kirby Ward, Peterborough Players

Fuse Theater Review: A Lame “Auld Lang Syne”

Auld Lang Syne is the kind of poorly made play that withholds important and obvious elements of development in order to score artificial dramatic points late in the action.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Auld Lang Syne, Gordon Clapp, Jack Neary, Peterborough Players

Poetry Review: Yves Bonnefoy — A Provocative “Second Simplicity”

This handsome edition of Yves Bonnefoy’s recent poetry and prose in English translation is a stunning presentation of a major poet.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: 1991-2011, french, French poetry, Second Simplicity: New Poetry and Prose, translation, Yves Bonnefoy

Book Review: Mahmoud Darwish — Palestinian Poet of Heritage and Exile

Mahmoud Darwish, who died in 2008 at the age of sixty-seven, was best and heroically known for his complex perspective on political and spiritual borders — as both a poet and a spokesman for his Palestinian people.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: Arabic poetry, If I Were Anotherm Arab literature, In the Presence of Absence, Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian literature, translation

Theater Review: “The Lady With All the Answers” Makes for Predictable Drama

“The Lady With All the Answers” presents the columnist Ann Landers as a person who just might write a letter to Ann herself. Her faith in herself and her work is unquestioned, even as her own life takes a bump or two. Well, really, only one bump.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Ann Landers, David Rambo, one-person show, Peterborough Players, The Lady Who Knows All the Answers

Theater Review: A Bright and Literate Version of the Darkly Comic “Measure for Measure”

Director Gus Kikkonen and cast come up with a bright, literate presentation of William Shakespeare’s play “Measure for Measure,” a potentially dark comedy pregnant with power.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Gus Kikkonen, Measure for Measure, Peterborough Players, William-Shakespeare

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