Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Barry Neidorf North brook...
...CANDACE BROOK, as Eurydice, tends to purse her lips into a little pout when she's not talking--as though keeping still annoys her. She portrays a charming wife, whose dialogue compensates for her insipidity. Admittedly, there's not much time in this snatch of a story for nuance in personalities. Perhaps that's why the comic characters come off best--they each have a bundle of idiosyncrasies to lean on. Heurtebise, clad in blue overalls, shuffles around in a loose-ankled, slightly pigeon-toed walk, with his hands clasped tightly against his waist. The unworldly astonishment never fades from...
...Peter Brook stripped the Dream bare to reveal a contemporary parable, freeing the play at last from its wrappings of earlier sentimentality-productions shrouded in tulle and Mendelssohn. Post-Brook directors have no choice but to grapple with this evolution. It is a task clearly beyond Edward Berkely, who has directed the revival at Joseph Papp's Newhouse Theater in Manhattan. He has interred the play in 20th century sentimentality. The actors do their own thing, and the play becomes farce. Unloved Helena is a coy baby-talker and Poltergeist Puck a Harlem Globetrotter; the fairy attendants are reduced...
...philosophical noodling, more smoky legend than shoes-in-the-dirt fiction. What saves it from arch ness is the warmth and sense of the telling. The 26-year-old author is black, and variously a cartoonist, TV writer-producer and philosopher, currently teaching at New York's Stony Brook. More than anything, his book is a wry comment on the tension felt by a black intellectual. It shows enough narrative strength, though, for the reader to hope that Johnson will go on to try a straight forward novel...
...individuals and activity for the collective, and besides, true equality won't be possible until communism grows out of socialism; for now, political equality is all that matters. "It is a question of different social systems," someone said finally, "capitalism and socialism," and when Linda La Violette of Stony Brook said women were exploited under both, the Chinese women in the room nodded and smiled but said they disagreed...