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...KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE. Frank Marcus' comedy hangs out the dirty laundry behind the scenes of a BBC soap opera On the air, Sister George (Beryl Reid) is a habitual hymn hummer, but once her loving listeners tune out, she stalks around her lesbian household as a gin-and-cigar-flavored tyrant with whiplash language...
...KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE, by Frank Marcus, is an abrasive English comedy of cruelty about the games lesbians play. Beryl Reid, Eileen Atkins and Lally Bowers are expert and subtle as three witches, and their vivid interpretations of the foolish and servile, the vain and the vile, stir up a cauldron of laughter...
...KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE by Frank Marcus is an abrasive English comedy of cruelty about the games Lesbians play. Beryl Reid, Eileen Atkins and Lally Bowers are expert and subtle as three witches and their vivid interpretations of the foolish and servile, the vain and the vile, stir up a cauldron of laughter...
...heroine (Beryl Reid) has for years played the part of a kindly rural nurse. Sister George, in a sentimentally bucolic radio serial about a small English country town. In the serial, Sister George performs good deeds and put-puts around on her motor bike singing hymns with homey off-pitch piety. Off the air, in her London flat, Sister George is a horsy, cigar-chewing, gin-swilling, bull-roaring lesbian who coarsely flays her pliant companion, "Childie...
...hard to feel really sorry for her, but Beryl Reid brings her to such vividly bitchy life that it is also hard to take the eye or mind off her. Equally expert and subtle are the acting strokes with which Eileen Atkins and Lally Bowers brush in the characters of the other two witches. Frank Marcus' spoofing of the BBC is the weakest aspect of his play, but his stingingly unsentimental probe of what is foolish, vile, vain, concupiscent, and servile in the human animal stirs up a cauldron of laughter...