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When her asthmatic little boy Ernesto ("Che") Guevara grew up to be at 33 the Marxist mastermind of Fidel Castro's government in Havana, Celia de la Serna de Guevara was as proud as a mamma could be, particularly a Communist mamma. At home in Argentina, Celia has long been an all-wool Communist herself, but hampered by individualistic tendencies. She often ate with a pistol on the table, and, before she separated from Ernesto Sr.. sometimes used the weapon to threaten her husband, whose policies were only parlor pink. Somehow the leaders of Argentine Communism never...
Bayonets in Recife. Things are a lot livelier for Celia these days. As her son Che's Red star rises higher over Cuba, Mother Guevara has gone into quite an orbit of her own. She buzzed off to decorate a conference of leftist females in Santiago, Chile, in November 1959, returned to whip up enthusiasm for an Argentine branch of Castro's 26th of July movement. She travels to Cuba at least once a year to see her boy. Lately, Celia has capped her career by becoming a kind of Marxist Typhoid Mary, spreading violence wherever she goes...
Rosalind is of course of heroine of the play. Yet in this production she comes off second-best to her companion Celia. Ideally, the Misses Hunter and Nye ought to exchange parts; and this would put the play into better balance...
...banished Duke wears rimless spectacles and lets his shirt hang out all the time. Jaques is in sandals. Sir Oliver Martext, garbed as a Victorian vicar, periodically bicycles on and off stage blowing a hideous horn. Rosalind, in disguise, sports a hunter's red cap; while her companion Celia appears with a white boa, hatbox, and birdcage, and even paints her eyelashes using a pool for a mirror...
...wholly captivating portrayal of the Jove smitten Orlando by Donald Harron. A Critic should be wary of the work "perfect"; but, at the performance I attended, Harron had nary a flaw, and no other word will suffice. the second reason is the attractive young lady named Carrie Nye. As Celia, she is an unflaggingly buoyant and zestful confidante to her mistress Rosalind, and her words fall...