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By Tom Russo

GLOBE CORRESPONDENT

During its six-season run on PBS’s “Masterpiece,” the beloved manor-and-man-

ners drama “Downton Abbey” looked ever more to themes about the landed aristoc-

racy’s future prospects. For all of the Crawley family’s moneyed fabulosity, doubt

crept in regularly as to whether their regal English estate and its attendant culture

were sustainable amid a fast-changing interwar landscape. As privileged-yet-savvy

Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery) wondered in particular, did the Crawleys and their

dedicated servants have a place in the world anymore?

Obsolescence is again on characters’ minds in “Downton Abbey” the feature film,

a thoroughly satisfying follow-up that arrives in theaters not quite four years after

the series finale aired. You didn’t suppose the grand old house would be allowed to

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An ‘Abbey’ road

well taken The “Downton

Abbey” film cast

includes Jim

Carter (left) and

(below) Laura

Carmichael,

Maggie Smith,

Hugh Bonneville,

and Elizabeth

McGovern.

After six years on

PBS, ‘Downton’

won’t disappoint

fans in its movie

incarnation

By Murray Whyte
GLOBE STAFF
When Yayoi Kusama was 10
years old, pumpkins began to
speak to her. Her anxiety disor-
der, which had left her at
the mercy of vivid, re-
lentless nightmares, was blos-
soming. Locked in a nightmar-
ish childhood where her moth-

At ICA, Yayoi Kusama’s

inner world goes deep

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Yayoi Kusama’s “Love Is Calling” is up at the ICA.

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er — emotionally abusive and

intensely prohibitive, she

banned her from drawing,

stunting her impulses toward

art as a child — had enlisted her

to spy on her philandering fa-

ther’s many trysts, the young

Kusama sought solace where

she could find it.

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By Don Aucoin

GLOBE STAFF

CAMBRIDGE — The question of

complicity in a lie — or, say, oh, I don’t

know, perhaps more than 12,000 de-

monstrably false or misleading state-

ments in less than three years, docu-

mented by one of the nation’s leading

newspapers? — hangs thick in the air

over Washington just now.

So, in theory, this is a very good

time to revive “The Crucible.’’ After all,

while Arthur Miller’s drama about the

infamous Salem witch trials of the late

17th century was written in response

to the McCarthyite Red Scare of the

1950s, it has resonance as a broader

Bedlam’s

‘Crucible’

needs to

burn hotter

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allegory of the deadly consequences

that can occur when collective irra-

tionality and mendacity (of both the

intellectual and moral sort) hold

sway.

However, in the premiere of a co-

production by Bedlam and the Nora

Theatre Company, the relevance and

enduring potency of “The Crucible’’

are engaged in a constant battle with

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“The Cru-

cible” is

a copro-

duction by

Bedlam

and the

Nora

Theatre

Company.

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