I loved the vast richness of his canvas from an Italian monastery to the deserts of North Africa, the weaving of the politics of war with the power play of passion, all exhilarated with the thirst for exploration and adventure.
In a love scene in "Private Confessions" we see, in the play of passion on Pernille August's face and in her glittering eyes, not just delight, surprise, the flush of ecstasy, but a touch of malice as well.
The result can be seen on stages throughout the UK – beginning at Dundee's Rep theatre – in a new version by David Ireland that relocates Lorca's 1932 play of passion and violence to the modern day.
As he describes it, it's a pattern of "play to passion to purpose". Parents of innovators encouraged their children to play in more exploratory ways, he says.
The conductors — Thomas Jensen, Launy Grøndahl, Erik Tuxen — aren't household names, but they elicit playing of reckless passion.
But Ms. Ruhl is aiming even higher: she has set the playing of the Passion in three different places at three different historical turning points, adding time and space to the drama's heady mix of romance, religion and rehearsal.
In 1987, his screen adaptation of his stage play "Corridos: Tales of Passion and Revolution" was shown on PBS and won a Peabody Award.
This time around, she portrays Patricia, a woman in her late 30's who embodies a recurring preoccupation within the play, the erosion of passion by time and disappointment.
He plays with a lot of passion".
She plays with a lot of passion, and she's as strong on her skates as anyone in the game".
