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Other deserve warm commendation: Jane Alexander as the affectionate Julia, Terrence Currier as Bob Acres, the country bumpkin, and George Mitchell as Sir Lucius O'Trigger, the aged but still hot-headed city rake. But the warmest praise must go to Michael Murray, the director. His lively pace piles absurdity upon hilarity, yet he never crowds his little stage. His conception of the play rests upon the humor in each character, not in the situation, and he presents them as individuals with exaggerated but endearing faults. They share the same manners and conventions, but they have clearly defined personalities...
Along with Dun & Bradstreet reports, file drawers in his secretary's office are stuffed with Wildenstein catalogues, Parke-Bernet auction lists, and color transparencies. On his desk sits a tiny Daumier bronze of a humble country bumpkin. He also wants his employees to appreciate art, gives them plenty to look at. Rarely have they failed to enjoy it, but once he had to take down a Leger tapestry of a mechanical man in the office foyer. Employees read themselves uncomfortably into the image...
...Charles Dyer, locks a London floozy and a virginal Manchester clerk in a bedroom and then busily prevents them from going to bed. Stalemated between farce and pathos, the play does not go anywhere either; but Tammy Grimes is a beguiling imp and Edward Woodward a touchingly vulnerable bumpkin...
...Simple Man, by Charles Dyer, locks a London floozy and a virginal Manchester clerk in a bedroom and then busily prevents them from going to bed. The play is stalemated between farce and pathos, but Tammy Grimes is a beguiling imp and Edward Woodward a touchingly vulnerable bumpkin. Mother Courage, by Bertolt Brecht. Anne Bancroft pulls her canteen wagon across the face of Europe during the Thirty Years' War and tragically loses her three children. Brecht's reflections on peace and war are deeply ironic, but Anne Bancroft lacks the depth for her part. Strange Interlude, by Eugene...
...Charles Dyer, locks a London floozy and a virginal Manchester clerk in a bedroom and then busily prevents them from going to bed. Stalemated between farce and pathos, the play does not go anywhere either, but Tammy Grimes is a beguiling imp and Edward Woodward a touchingly vulnerable bumpkin...