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Sat 03 Mar 2003Reviews
Shakespeare's Villains at Vicar Street, Dublin: Steven Berkoff's stage persona is a bundle of apparent contradictions. A distinguished playwright with a relish for demotic language, his acting style is rooted in the non-verbal forms he learned from the French mime school of Jacques le Coq.
A serious and passionate classicist, he is probably best known to the general public as a comic-book villain in James Bond and Beverly Hills Cop movies. An imperious director, he yet claims sovereignty for the actor.
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