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language that paradoxically combines flavors from Oscar Wilde and
Bertolt Brecht, Lewis Carroll and William Shakespeare. And they
manage this while giving their personages a quite modern humanity =96
all except Mr. DuBose, whose tour de force of a performance possesses
a sublime and grandiose silliness and cruelty.

Ms. Owens, her actors and her designers leave the audience with many
indelible moments. Ms. Thomas exudes a nobility like that of a boy
king or Joan of Arc. Ms. Darby's face is a death mask of despair as
she rides in her cart with her courtiers. Mr. Stroh's eyes light up
like a small child's when he explains a bit of erudite doctrine. A
scene in a cavelike barrow glows with firelight as Ms. Thomas and Mr.
Haberkorn fight a hallucinatory duel.

If Silence disappoints at all, it is in the way Ms. Buffini ties up
her epic tale. The end is too facile to satisfy completely. The ride
along the way, however, is glorious.

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