Word: acted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From its rather conventional first act, Fortune and Men's Eyes develops into an exceptional play. Given the power of its final minutes, minstrel shows may soon be gone entirely. It may not be possible for us to laugh away the homosexual for as long as we managed to laugh away the black...
...says in the prologue to his play The Bonds of Interest. And certainly real people could never be as funny as they were last night in director Paul Cooper's adaptation of the play. Cooper's assemblage of cheaters, misers, scheming ladies, and boisterous servants--especially in the second act--gives you much more to watch than you could ever take in. You often miss good lines, but on the whole it doesn't matter; there are lots of others. Cooper has conserved all the sharpness and wit of Benavente's script, adding some delightful touches...
...girls' bodies and swimming motions and intercutting the play of light on the water, Edelstein takes off from the immediate action to create a light-blasted wasteland of sexuality--a world in which the freely swimming girls are unapproachable. The sequence completely explains his male characters' inability to act decisively: in such a world, the world of their objectified emotions, action is hopeless...
...great gusto, but in a commedia dell'arte the stage should be filled with action. Too often the stage is held by just two people--essentially a fault of Benavente's play, but a few extras cleverly slipped in would have helped a great deal. Still, in the second act revelry breaks out as the entire cast shows itself for a switching, twisting, joyous denouement...
...records, will be handicapped for the same reason that he was so valuable to his team. In the process of scoring 91 3/4 points this winter, Krause swam in a variety of races in order to collect the maximum number of team points as part of Brooks' master juggling act...