Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HOGAN'S GOAT. Ethnic memory is tapped as William Alfred evokes Irish character, customs and political clout in Brooklyn at the turn of the century. Beneath the blarney and blather lies the turbulent story of the making and unmaking of an American politician.
To prepare the way for an orderly transition after his death, Idris has been grooming his nephew, Crown Prince Hassan Rida, and at the same time altering and liberalizing the character of Libya's kingship. He is retiring more and more to his half a dozen domed and crenelated...
There may be a valid satirical point of view toward Hollywood half-marriages, or even toward attempted suicide. But Natalie, poking her head in and out of a hissing gas oven to answer phone calls, seems unaware that even the silliest comic character has to believe passionately in her own...
The Provincetown that Eugene O'Neill made popular does not exist in winter. There is no carnival atmosphere, no theatre, no artists of dubious character from Greenwich Village.
The most important aspect of the play, the singing, is uniformly excellent. Each voice fits the character, Daniel, sung by Walter Denny, has a pure, almost ascetic tenor voice. Because of his high range and clarity of tone, his voice alone sets him apart from the plotting counselors and sacreligious...