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...settlement last week of the major league baseball players' strike was not exactly as sweet as James Wilson's "Casey's Revenge," the 1906 sequel to "Casey at the Bat." The 13-day strike cost the owners at least $5,000,000, mostly in lost ticket sales and broadcasting fees; the players dropped about $1,000,000 in salaries. Neither sum is retrievable because none of the 86 missed games will be made up. But that still left 3,802 regular season games before the World Series starts...
...article titled "The Bald Primaqueera,"* which blasted the theaters of cruelty and the absurd, Sean O'Casey offered his view of the source of this sense of degradation: "It was Artaud-the latest trumpeter of the Primaqueeri-or one of his brethren, who gave us a picture of a beautiful girl, naked, with a malignant tarantula spider between her lovely thighs." In Harold Pinter's work, the temptress/tarantula becomes the slut/ mother. The theme is developed with the greatest finesse in The Homecoming. Ruth and her husband Teddy come home to England to visit Teddy's widowed...
...Bull Gets The Matador Once In A Lifetime takes place not in the streets of Pamplona but in the sun-baked living-rooms of Manhattan Island, and the subject matter--well, that's show biz. Specifically, it's all about Casey, a 25-year-old comedienne out to win an audience at the expense of family, lovers and good sense. Gina Heiserman has this strenuous part, which demands not only the lead in every scene but excruciating comedy routines delivered straight to the audience, reminiscent of Lauren Bacall's opening in Applause. She is the continually frustrated joker, reminiscent...
Though the subject might better belong to the late show or daytime TV, author Liz Coe has written a play that is clever, fast-moving and never tedious. Director Emily Mann has done some nice things too. Her opening is particularly striking, with Casey a backstage silhouette pacing anxiously before she has to come out on stage and do her routine. Mann has skillfully used John Caruso's recorded music to raise the pitch of melodramatic tension during the blackouts. And on the most part the cast was fine...
...BULL is a local product and it deserves its share of local laurels. But what repeatedly keeps it from major stature is its continual triteness. This is a play that starts with an idea and ideas are so often the end of drama. As Casey "becomes more successful, more self-confident a dichotomy arises between possession of the audience and her own personal life," Coe has said and that's the way it is, all set up in Act One, Scene Two to go nowhere discernible. Sure, she loses her baggage--Bentley Arlington concedes his courtship, Dad gives...