Word: contentively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although written in only six days, Night You Are is a marvel of structural craftsmanship over and above its meaty and profound content. Time and again Pirandello leads his plot into seemingly impossible situations, only to wriggle out of them with twists of genius. And She play builds to one of the neatest and densest climaxes in all drama...
...content with destroying the barricades and breaking the Tunisian blockade, the French next day launched a full-scale attack on the town of Bizerte itself, which commands the narrow entrance to the Bay of Bizerte (see map). Rocket-carrying planes swiftly blasted out the Tunisians' few artillery posts. Tanks and tough paratroopers pushed into the city from the south; marines swarmed ashore on the harbor side in landing craft, as three French cruisers lurked offshore. The Tunisians fought raggedly through the streets, but they were no match for French striking power. Bizerte was quickly in French hands...
...remember whether I said this word for word," pleaded Eichmann, "but so far as the content is concerned, I must agree that this is correct...
...difficult play to act, for all that noise; but it does act well, cajoled--unlike democracy and "some people's plays" as the graying Aristocrat alleges in one of his less memorable mots. That is, it can act well, if each one of the nine players is content to remain a posture to be sympathized of at least content to pretend to enjoy the talk as much as Shaw himself did. And in the current Harvard Summer Players production most of them, unlike in Monday's Boston Record, are quite content...
...less content with the four young people. Faye Dunaway's Hypatia Tarleton (the Young Thing) shouts and mouthes her lines magnificently--rather like the tutored Eliza Doolittle. But a shout seems to be the limit of Miss Dunaway's acting capabilities, and she is less than arch, more that dull. As her original suitor, Jere Whiting is determinedly effeminate (he can shout, too); Robert Moulthrop, her eventual choice, must be a stout fellow, but his Etonian ways do not convince. The fourth one, William Gordy, Hypatia's brother, barks gruffy; he is not a little tedious...