YUPPIE CLEOPATRA
Rosalind Cash, the actress who will be playing Cleopatra this week in the LATC’s production of Shakespeare’s play “Antony and Cleopatra,” sees the conflict in it as deriving from a “mature love relationship” between “two people with powerful careers” who have to “balance those choices” (“A Tale of Two Cleopatras,” by Janice Arkatov, June 27).
How many cliches did she manage to rack up in one quote? Talk about ‘80s banalities. When will those in charge of Los Angeles theater realize that when you do a great play you try for greatness, and not for something to make it palatable, and understandable, to those accustomed to daytime TV?
No wonder the LATC is mostly a yuppy yawn between supper and sleep, and Los Angeles Theater a high school tryout.
JOSEPH EARNER
North Hollywood
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