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Green Julia, by Paul Ableman, at the Loeb Ex, tonight till Saturday...
GREEN JULIA by PAUL ABLEMAN...
Green Julia is a Rorschach-test play and an awfully good one. It is the first full-length drama by Britain's Paul Ableman, 45, who has previously written three novels and some 50 abstract and surrealist playlets. Like most plays of this sort, Green Julia is low on action and high on intensity of situation. The only characters that the audience sees are Robert Lacey, a young plant physiologist, and Jacob Perew, a young economist. For some time, Perew (John Pleshette) and Lacey (Fred Grandy) have shared a flat in an English university town. They also share...
...pull one last manipulative ploy. He wants to saddle Lacey with his mistress, a promiscuous lush 14 years his senior who hangs out at a local pub called The Green Man. She is the unseen Julia of the title. Lacey refuses, but that scarcely settles the questions Playwright Ableman tantalizingly raises. Is Perew merely a heel trying to avoid emotional remorse? Is he, perhaps, more in love with Julia than he lets on, enough to want to soften the blow of his departure? Is it possible that he wants to bring a little fleshly warmth into Lacey's loveless...
...University members were Walter H. Ableman, Associate in Medicine, Albert H. Coons Visiting Professor of Bacteriology and Immunology, Howard S. Frazier, research fellow in Physiology, and John R. Pappenheimer '36, visiting professor in Physiology...