But Paul Jesson's Sir Toby, belching and farting on a purple sofa with the doddering, death's-head Aguecheek of David Bradley, is no jolly knight.

ECONOMIST: Shakespeare's ��Twelfth Night��

This Columbus Day, the Italian-American groups that traditionally lay a wreath at the base of the monument can lean it against a purple sofa in Mr. Nishi's ersatz living room.

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