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This is living theater, not at its most avant-grade or theoretical but simply at its best.\u201d<br \/><b>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;\u2014Jacob Stockinger, MADISON CAPITAL TIMES (9\/8\/1981)<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018SHAKESPEARE\u2019S MEMORABLE \u2018DREAM\u2019\u2019\u2026A last word for Randall Duk Kim, artistic director of the American Players Theater, as Puck. He is lithe and quick, impressively consumed and clarity personified in his utterance of some of Shakespeare\u2019s most memorable lines (\u2018What fools these mortals be.\u2019). If his voice is not quite right, at least for my taste\u2014a bit too throaty, too heavy, too old, at times too raucous\u2014he overcomes this defect with fine stage presence\u2026.\u201d<br \/><b>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; \u2014John T. 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