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Brecht's story is simple. A trio of God's in search of good people are introduced by a water seller (Steve Kaplan) to Shen Te (Trish Archer) a prostitute who is a good people. The Gods pay her for their night's lodging with enough money to start a small tobacco shop. Screaming freeloaders move in; she falls in love with a worthless unemployed flyer; her every good deed brings ruin. To save herself, she invents a businesslike, ruthless alter ego, Shui Ta, who is successful and dastardly. How to reconcile goodness and survival? Shen Te can't manage...
INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE, by John Osborne, is one man's violent outburst at how he has marred his life and how life has mauled him. Poisoned arrows of wit and vituperation fill the air, and Nicol Williamson is an actor-archer with deadly...
INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE, by John Osborne, is one man's violent outburst at how he has marred his life and how life has mauled him. Poisoned arrows of wit and vituperation fill the air, and Nicol Williamson is an actor-archer with deadly...
...before we reach the four melodramatic scenes that takes care of the plot; after that three competent actors take over and its' all downhill. The Count (Robert Lanchester) has tolerated his wife's affairs and she has tolerated his. He has a mistress, whom he finds boring. Lucile (Patricia Archer) brings a ray of simplicity into his life; she's a 20-year-old social worker virgin, and he goes nuts...
...Lanchester, whose comic sense is erratic, seems to be a competent straight actor and he keeps the last two acts moving nicely. Miss Archer plays her very difficult role with a great deal of style, and Mr. Esckilsen comes off best of all as the drunkard, obsessed by a Lucile-like girl the count made him give up 20 years before...