Word: baldingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...THEATRE Centre opens its season with Jack, or The Submission and The Bald Soprano by Ionesco, two plays with a spooky flux between motion and verbiage. Harnessing the two elements for full impact calls less for enthusiasm, which these productions have in quantity, than for measured coordination of stage blockings. In the HTC program notes, Director-Producer Rosann Weeks asserts an ideal commitment to "vital, direct, and positive communication with our audience." Somehow or other, their good intentions get tripped up in a confusion of artistic priorities, which leaves the first play choppy, the second slow-paced and staid...
...BALD SOPRANO had a strangely stale effect, though the famed "Bobby Watson" segment and the opening interchange between Mr. and Mrs. Martin should, independently, justify even the most traditional revival of this play. What follows these two paradigms of verbal obfuscation is a dreary series of games which the Smiths play with their think-alike symbolic coordinates, the Martins. The caperings of Mary, the maid, seemed to contribute nothing to the action, but Victoria Fraser's quickness in that part relieved an artistic sore in the play which was repeatedly aggravated by Jim Lynch's performance as the visiting Fire...
...embryos. The mothers ingested DDT which upset their calcium metabolism. That caused them to lay thin-shelled eggs that could not support their weight. Pelican eggs collapsed in the rookeries all the way from Anacapa to Mexico. The pelican, the osprey, the cormorant, the petrel, the seagull, the American Bald Eagle and the peregrine falcon: all of their eggs are collapsing, the shells are too thin. No new generations are being born...
...enough to make dog jokes through the physical characteristics of human characters-a feisty boxer, a bald Mexican hairless, a pedigreed bitch in heat. It is not enough to announce that we-are-all-prisoners-of-the-absurd, as if the idea had sprung full-blown from the head of Downey. What is needed is a vision or a viewpoint. The writer-director can supply neither...
Though he is almost as bald as a Boy Scout's knee, Yoshikawa never misses his weekly trip to the barber, who trims what tendrils are left and gives him a massage. More weekly haircuts, he asserts, could improve the chances for world peace because "neatness induces a repose in the mind." Unless, of course, one happens to be a Takara competitor...