Word: actes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brandeis Professor of Law Charles M. Haar gave his testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee, which has been working for several weeks to formulate the Enterprise Zone (EZ) Improvements Act...
While Haar said he did not think the act was the perfect solution to the plight of the inner city, he did think it was important to pass the bill since it was the best solution that had been proposed thus...
Late in the first act, the players break through the fourth wall, but even the contrived intermission is a welcome interruption of the trial scene in which the writers, again mixing in politics, draw heavy-handed parallels to the Iran-Contra hearings...
Even when the pace slows, Jenny Gibbs does a graceful job of playing Alice; her performance is full of energy and her girlish gestures are appropriate. If her accent is uneven, it is only out of consistency with the work--Alice admits in the first act that she is a native of both Oxford and Hackensack, which cannot help but to confuse Gibbs' speech pattern...
...pace quickens in the second act, which is saved by faster scenes and more entertaining song and dance. The White Knight (Tom Hale) does a rap to cheer Alice while the other actors dance. The final ensemble number, a "lobster dance" set to Beethoven, is funny and very original. The act drags only during a mainly unintelligible "Jabberwocky Battle," which leaves the audience guessing at its multi-lingual signifigance...