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...juxtaposition of the horrifying and the hilarious forms part of the common round of existence-and of this startling play. British Writer Peter Nichols constructs a comedy of anguish, extracting laughter from the uncomic plight and blistering pain of two parents (Albert Finney and Zena Walker) whose ten-year-old daughter is a spastic...
...play is immensely theatrical, sensuous and intellectual. Apart from being Pirandello's greatest work, Henry IV is a fascinating precursor of the entire theater of the absurd-the anguish over existence in Sartre and Camus, the guerrilla warfare against ossified language and the mass mind in lonesco, the bleak, alienated vision of Beckett, the sense of man eternally acting a role in Genet, and the use of the stage as a self-contained universe in Pinter. In a towering display of the actor's craft, Kenneth Haigh confers unbrooked, unhinged regality on the title character while coiling...
...startling comedy of anguish has opened on Broadway. Peter Nichols' Joe Egg turns blistering pain into bubbling laughter as it focuses on the vastly uncomic plight of two parents whose ten-year-old child is a spastic vegetable. While this might appear to be the epitome of black and sick comedy, the play is neither, though it is full of the modern humor of cruelty and the games people play to put each other on or down...
...contrast to the humor, the lower depths elicited the most common failings of undergraduate art. Most of the dances which dealt with the anguish of love, or depression, loneliness, and death produced big empty cliches of movement: contractions in the solar plexus, rolls to the floor, and tortured embracing of empty space (including the dancers' own heads). Using quivering feet and fingers spread in agony to express their morbid profundities the choreographers seldom planned expression for the whole body. Still preverbal, they were seldom able to express themselves in the real morphemes of the dance--movement and energy involving...
Despite its lack of death-defying wit, Exit the King is not unmoving as it records the tender anguish of love for what one is about to lose. Berenger's question, "Why was I born if it wasn't forever?" is a lacerated cry from the heart. Sadly, the bumbling hand of the APA reduces it to an infantile yelp of self-pity...