Yes, Jud falls on his own knife in Riggs. No doubt. However, I get the impression, from doing a bit of research on Riggs over the years, that Riggs did consider Jud, well the character most of us know as Jud, to be a sympathetic "other". Spent some time with several Bard folk a few weeks ago over a Memorial day gathering and they feel Fish spent quite a bit of time with the "Green Grow...." script and that it had a significant influence on his interpretation. (the "folk songs" especially seem to influence the "country western" feel of the song delivery and orchestrations of the current production as well as the smoke house scene in this production....which I think is exquisite).
Now, once again, that ballet. |
