Word: anouilh
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...think Jean Anouilh's Waltz of the Toreadors is still playing in Boston; I've heard conflicting reports, but the reviews were good, for whatever that's worth, and Anouilh is a pretty good playwright...
WALTZ OF THE TOREADORS, by Jean Anouilh, is supposed to be good, and with Anne Jackson and Eli Wallach in it, it probably is. 7:30 at the Colonial Theater in Boston...
...this play, first seen in New York in 1957, Jean Anouilh caricatures the romantic attitudes that get men betrayed. It is a black farce with a bitter personal tang, an overprotesting cynicism, a disillusionment so dark as to suggest illusions once far too rosy...
Thanks to Anouilh's vividly ironic vision, much of the evening is howlingly funny. Wallach has always possessed perfect comic pitch and he displays it again here. However, he lacks that certain panache which makes St. Pé a duelist with destiny rather than a Good Soldier Schweik taking fate's pratfalls. Jackson is an awesome virago who delivers her lines like bayonet thrusts...
...brisk playfulness of Brian Murray's direction somewhat masks the vein of melancholy that runs through Anouilh's best characters. Their gaiety is inverted mourning. They suffer with a quip on their lips while stretched on a rack that is the distance between the way things are and the way they want them to be. "T.E.Kalem