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EXIT THE KING is a stark play about death, rich in poetry and insight. Unfortunately, as interpreted by members of the APA, King has too much of a whine and too little command to involve the audience in lonesco's tragic vision or in his character's emotional tumult...
PANTAGLEIZE is Michel de Ghelderode's celebration of the individual, "unfit for anything except love, friendship, and ardor," and his condemnation of our "autodisintegrated age." The APA production retains much of the excitement and magic typical of the Belgian playwright...
...playwright of despair-otherwise, he said, "why do you think I have to be so funny?" The basic problem with Exit the King is that it is not funny enough to leaven the despair, and what comic spirit there is has been muffled in this Manhattan production by the APA Repertory Company. A 90-minute mood piece on the palpable fear of approaching death, the play has been given a sleepy rather than springy staging by Director Ellis Rabb. Instead of displaying regal authority and a poignant awareness of death, Richard Easton as the king mopes, whines and stumbles about...
...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...
PANTAGLEIZE is the creation of Belgian Playwright Michel de Ghelderode and a "lunar individual" to whom a funny thing happens on the way to his destiny. In a visually impressive production by the APA repertory company, Ellis Rabb plays the innocent who just happens to be there when a revolution is looking for a leader...