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...wonder how long the Catholic church that I have known will survive. When this generation of hierarchy passes away (old cardinals don't really live forever, they just seem to), it will have to be replaced by a group of men who can sell their ideas. If the bark of Peter is to be a living vessel rather than a historical oddity, direction from the top must give way to a 'reasoning together...
...felt experience for the audience-firsthand rather than projected. Yelling and chanting, the actors mingle with the playgoers on the way to their seats. No makeup is used, the lights are always up, there is no intermission, and the actors-usually within touching distance-frequently appeal to, or bark at, the audience...
...Bark & Bite. Mailer indulges his hero with a splendid deadpan pomposity, reinforced by the fact that he refers to himself throughout in the third person. The reader first meets him in his Brook lyn Heights apartment, picking up a ringing telephone as if it were a pistol loaded for Russian Roulette. "On impulse, thereby sharpening his instinct as a gambler, he took spot plunges: once in a while he would pick up his own phone. On this morning in September, 1967, he lost his bet." The caller is a militant antiwar organizer and old Harvard classmate, who extracts from Mailer...
Although Grania is the chief culprit, the three of them bark and bite at one other all night in a manner not unlike the Tyrones in Long Day's Journey into Night. Lady Gregory's penchant for folk dialect and fairly elaborate imagery prevent the encounters from being quite so acerbic, and give the characters a sort of distance. There's not an awful lot you can do with only two or three characters on stage, and director John Pym settles for movement that is simple and unobtrusive...
...notable failing, it is that in many cases its anonymous authors, with Teutonic thoroughness, tell more about devices and I processes than most people want to know. To explain the way a safety match works, for example, they begin with a log not yet stripped of its bark. Then they relentlessly pursue the wood -carefully identified as poplar-through the entire manufacturing process. Reluctantly they abandon the description when the match has finally been ignited, the flame extinguished and the reader's interest has burned...