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Playwright Thomas Babe, who fills most of thirteen pages in this Advocate, is said to be interested in form. Both he confines his interest to scene-sized packages, and one's final impression of his "Resistance" is one of forlorn people talking about themselves. This seems more like a prologue than a play...
...half-convinced that Babe's heroine Pepper derives from Pippi Longstocking, the children's book tomboy who played hooky and didn't wash behind his ears. Neither Pepper nor her big brother Markie can find someone to love them, to make them believe it's worth growing up. Pepper faces down a grey-flannel husband and petty-bourgeois mother-in-law, befriends a looney, and runs off to Europe to find her brother, who carries the world's angst on his shoulders...
This kind of thematic material doesn't lend itself to irony. So even when Babe flirts with Ionesco in a scene where you can't tell who is the loony and who the patient, the whole thing floats on soap bubbles...
...helped make Radcliffe's ski team the best female college team in the northeast; Eleanor Thomas '69 and Ginny Storrs, '69 who have competed in national AAU swimming events; and Ginny Storrs, '69, who stars in swimming, skiing, squash, volleyball, soft-ball, and basketball, and could be another Babe Zacharias...
...male leads are miscast--Michael Erhardt as Moncrieff only slightly, and Thomas Babe as Worthing more seriously. But both overcome this and emerge as the most dependable members of the nine-man cast, Erhardt generally underplays his outrageous lines, and Babe doesn't have...