Word: cowardly
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...world has not been waiting for, nor is it long likely to cherish Glenda Jackson's bizarre offering: a comic Hedda Gabler. She has apparently decided that Noel Coward is really the author of the play. Her performance at Washington, D.C.'s National Theater will certainly rank high in the annals of dramatic travesty...
...possessed a town house with painted ceilings and marble fireplaces that he rather hated and a charming wife in Schiaparelli originals whom he loved, and he showed off both. Parties the Clarks gave and attended were exercises in name-dropping: Noël Coward, Max Beerbohm, Arthur Rubinstein, T.S. Eliot, Winston Churchill...
...deepening bitterness is complemented by a growing hope. To the traditional image of Somoza as a fat, lying thief a new demension has been added--that of a coward. The dictator is now mocked for living in an underground redoubt, surrounded by bodyguards, for being afraid to appear in public. One young woman claims that he is acutally dead and that the country is being directed by a mummy...
Seth Riemer misinterprets his part as Giacomo, the family coward the only Cenci who would cringe at the thought of committing a murder. Riemer tries to convey this with an effect accent that seems anachronistic...
Phillip laZebnik's lyrics are at their best sublimely witty in the tradition of Noel Coward. Cole Porter and Tom Lehrer. "We'll be the perfect duet Two mouths sucking the same Sucret." "Call up Ronald Reagan and ask for my Friend Flicka." There are ten songs in the long first act, and nine in the second act, which is only 40 per cent as long. Some of these--"Power to Persuade" and "Team Song are the standouts--are clearly what makes the second act so much tighter than the first. The script is not quite funny enough--though...