Word: coe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that really is the spirit of Liz Coe's new play, albeit transposed into the desperately dramatic world of show biz, and the cosy arena of Agassiz Theater. Hopefully it's not once in a lifetime, but it's certainly the first time in a long time that a Radcliffe undergraduate playwright has had access to a stage this big. Radcliffe Grant-in-aid and Adams House Drama Society are sponsors; the show premieres tonight...
...from the drama of the bullfight to the drama of Casey Cowen, age 25, struggling comedian in New York City? "I like the irony in the title," says Liz Coe, "I see the comedian as synonymous with the matador, very much in an arena, and required to defend herself with the only weapons available. She has what can be likened to a sword--her aggressive sense of humor. Her cape is her sense of humor used as a disguise...
Casey Cowen's bull is her audience, which she must goad and challenge to laughter. "There is something about a comedian standing in front of an audience and saying, in effect, 'I'm here to make you laugh," says Coe. "Casey has to fill the stage with her personality, ever active, ever activated, and always in control. With satellite figures, she is the play. And as she becomes more successful, more self-confident, a dichotomy arises between possession of the audience and her own personal life." Fluttering her soul in front of the audience as her cape, Casey must either...
...both men are correct; Muskie has simply succumbed to paronophilia-the inordinate love of puns. Twice in New Hampshire he has assured audiences that the state cannot be taken for granite, and at the state capital he announced to a stunned reporter: "We just Concord the statehouse." At defenseless Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, he counted the house and cracked to his audience: "I can see that things are Coeequal here...
...course, you have to have an appetite for slapstick if you're to stomach it at all, but that's not really asking too much. Here, the energy of Coe's direction finds its just rewards and her complicated feats of staging can only improve in timing and finesse as the play continues in its run. Joining Brock (who, to his credit, goes so far as to roll down an entire flight of stairs) are Penny Goslin as his fiancee, Sylvia Kingsbury as a neighboring old lady and Tim Clark as the prospective father. All three manage to match Brock...