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RECURSOS By ZOLA GONZALEZ-MACARAMBON
reminder. The effect is a disturbing spectacle; one questions the verity of his own sanity. Another laudable element is Shakespeare’s “Mousetrap" as "Blanket Authority", the play within a play staged as a dance number within a dance number, which the play really is in all the characters' scheming and pretending, plotting and manipulating. CU dance troupe's George Caronia's choreography blends the deadly and graceful elements of the capoeira with modern club dancing to tell the story of Enrique's betrayal. It was definitely a high point in the narrative, one the audiences are sure to bring home in memory.
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he Xavier Stage rounds up a full season of Shakespearean dramas with Recursos, a Layeta Bucoy adaptation of Hamlet. This is a way of ending things with a bang, literally. For over an hour and a half, gunbrandishing main character Eric delays action and simmers in his suspicions and doubts over the death of his father. The suspicious death of Recursos' patriarch throws Eric into daytime delusions in the shape of his father's apparition. This ghost, perhaps the most incessant and demanding of characters from the other side, demands revenge thereby jump-starting the play's main action. Eric comes home to his mother, now married to his uncle Enrique, his long ignored girlfriend Nina, and the family
Perfectly cast as the Shakespearean Ophelia is newcomer Nicole J. Maboloc. Her portrayal of the chaste, lovelorn, and desperate-bordering-on-pathos Nina has a softness which blows to a crescendo in her breakdown and imminent unraveling. A slight nudge over the edge in insanity acting and she's easily Isabelle Adjani in that memorable tunnel scene from the cult classic, Possession (1981). Maboloc's performance absolutely helped the ringing tightness of the highwire the characters all walk on to indefinite heights, there was nothing more fitting, but that final blow that took down the last man standing.
business. Eric further delays and hides his indecisions in erratic behavior which leads to Nina's impending breakdown, suicide, and, in tragic fashion, everybody's demise. One of the many clever points in Director Hobart Savior's re-envisioning is in the play's physical design. Specters in white masks remind one of the concave face mask test for schizophrenia. In this test, a face is painted on the concave side of the mask, which a schizophrenic brain identifies correctly. A normal brain, however, sees the face as on the convex side. The strategically placed scrims, stretched on arches and placed in angles so that both white sides of the convex and concaves show, also evoke the same
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