Word: chee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LUIGI PIRANDELLO'S Chee Chee, at the Loeb Ex tonight through Saturday, reminds us that brevity is sometimes the ghost of wit. Pirandello wrote this half-act play in 1920, a year before Six Characters in Search of an Author and two years before Henry IV. Chee Chee bears the same relationship to these two pillars of Italian drama as that of calisthenics to a crucial football game. We see Pirandello going through the motions of the themes central to his work--the illusion of reality, the reality of illusion, the multiplicity of character, the exploitation of roles in human...
...Chee-Chee is hardly Pirandello's most famous play, but the acute intelligence and peculiar world-view of the man who wrote Six Characters in Search of An Author are still evident. Pirandello practically started the whole obsession with appearance-and-reality in modern drama, and this is the kind of play--a rarely performed piece by a great playwright--that the Loeb Ex is best for. At the Ex this Friday through Sunday at 8 p.m., as well as next weekend...
...cool us in the sultry August heat of southern China. The hotel had brought in several bunches of bananas, bowls of filterless cigarettes that look like Pall Malls, three or four cases of cold beer and an equal number of cases of cold orange soda, called "chii-shui" (chee-schway), the favorite Chinese soft drink. There was hot sugarless tea for those who preferred it. It cools you off much better than beer or soda...
...Give a chee...