Word: acted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What's happening on stage this month is worth a few bouts of brow-mopping in the second act, though. The Charles has dusted off one of the new, old chestnuts, John Osborne's Look Back in Anger, and pumped the play full of 20 times more life than it ever had in Humanities...
Early in the first act, Killinger establishes the dumpy flat as his domain and Jory augments Osborne's complex stage directions with a few tricks of his own to keep it that way. For instance, the script calls for Porter to kick a cistern, then sit and play it like a Bongo in the second act. Jory has junked that and instead has Jimmy playing a complex jazz solo with plates and glasses on the bleak little tea table, as Alison announces that she's going out with her friend Helena. "That's not a direction," Porter replies in perfect...
Jory's boldness has its perils, and once or twice he gets burned. With so much on Porter's stage command, the play sags whenever he is off. A long first scene of the second act, despite its deliniation of Helena's predatory habits, is a real albatross to this production...
...immediate alternative, Calkins suggested that some national group such as the Urban Coalition start a new foundation to act as a "middleman" for donations to universities...
...practices his medicine, he does it for Israel. The bus driver drives his bus and the street vendor sells his oranges, for Israel. Israeli life requires that the first commitment be to the state. Yet one must ask what type of nation Israelis will produce when they begin to act for themselves...