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Hands Off! moves from a comedy of the absurd, to a tragi-comedy of depression, to simple depression; from voice and action and thought, to action and thought, to just thought. But the external power is always there. The Caravan gives us no solution; they merely pose the dilemma--"hands-off!" is only a tactic. The Prologue indicates that it is only a delaying tactic at best...
...MOST damaging charge against the Cavett show seems to be that it's "intellectual." This, of course, is absurd. If anything, it is anti-intellectual in that it degrades intellectuals by treating them like movie stars. ("Tell me, Mr. Auden, when did you write your first poem?") But to keep ABC from thinking that the show is appealing to intellectuals, you'd better misspell a few words and mail from outside Cambridge when you write them to say how much you enjoy...
Despite occasional absurdities, the film is faithful to the spirit of small-town life. Bartlett lovingly chronicles the story of Ruby in her own setting: clam suppers, TV and sixpacks, high school teachers, neighbors. Ruth Hurd, who actually is a busdriver, plays Ruby. She gives a stunning performance as an aging woman determined not to be confined to her husband's chairside, yet ill at case elsewhere. Fixing herself a huge Ice Cream sundae and eating it as she watches the passersby from her porch, quietly slipping out by the back way after she has dressed...
...herring, and the Adams House Drama Society has seen fit to present the two together and call the result an evening of surreal theatre. Timko's red herring. "The Best Picture," ascribed to a Russian named Kopchyonaya Sel'dy, or Bloated Smelt, comes close to being theatre of the absurd, surreal theatre or whatever. But it really only diverts attention from the major part of the night's production. Georges Feydeau's farce, "Going...
...cast of the current Loeb Ex production are more than equal to the task. Under Lasky's thoughtful direction, the play has been almost more choreographed than merely staged. His eye for movement and careful attention to the interpretation of minor characters help create precisely that tension between absurd comedy and human tragedy at which Stoppard aims...