SOURCE: Brantley, Ben. “Shakespeare Serves Up a Savory Course of Rage.” New York Times 145 (26 August 1996): B1, C11-12.

In the following review, Brantley discusses Brian Kullick's Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival production of Timon of Athens. Brantley admires the inventiveness shown by both the director and the designers, but acknowledges a lack of connection between the characters and the audience.

Now here's a tip for getting rid of unwanted party guests that Amy Vanderbilt probably never gave you: put casters on your dining room table and chairs. When it comes time to unseat your visitors, have your servants wheel them around until they're dizzy, then send them spinning into the air.

Such is the movable feast that the young director Brian Kulick and his imaginative set and costume designer, Mark Wendland, have devised for one unhappy host, the title character of Shakespeare's Timon of Athens, which has...