The Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey in Madison presents a handsome staging of the second work in this cycle, "Henry IV, Part 1," as the opening production of its 50th season.
Anne Sophie Duprels plays both Giorgetta, the bargeman's wife whose love for another man in Il tabarro has shocking consequences, and Suor Angelica, the eponymous novice of the second work in the triptych.
The death-love and innocence-doom connections of the second work virtually beg for interpretation, and I suspect that it may be highly self-referential in its echoes of earlier Taylor choreography.
Nor was I the only one to be startled into laughter by the wonderful unlikeliness of the second work, The Lighters' Dancehall Polyphony – which sees its 11 dancers voguing, pirouetting and rapping through the wildly disparate enthusiasms of choreographers Cecilia Bengolea and François Chaignaud.
Thomasson admits that in this case one can only provide a necessary condition: x and y are the same fictional object only if the author of the second work W′ is competently acquainted with x of the previous work W, and intends to import x into W′ as y (1999 67).
