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...refuge offered by a former mental patient (Robert Shaw), the elder of two misfit brothers. Shaw collects things-bales of newspapers, a disconnected faucet, a kitchen sink, a bud vase full of screws-and he speaks and moves with the stony detachment of a man who will never again disturb the balance of his uneasy truce with life. His goal is to build a workshed out back: "Then I'll be able to do a bit more with the house." The younger brother (Alan Bates) retains some link to the workaday world but expresses his frustration in bursts...
...Pope, the prelates overwhelmingly approved the democratic notion of collegiality. They narrowly voted to discuss the Virgin Mary in the schema on the church rather than as a separate item; giving special emphasis to Mary is a pet cause of the conservatives, but any major Marian pronouncement will disturb ecumenical discussion between the church and Protestants...
CORRUPTION IN THE PALACE OF JUSTICE, by Ugo Betti, is about that debased, fallen being called Man, who, in some unassailable corner of his tarnished soul, yearns for, reflects, and presupposes a radiant otherness called God. Justice is a play to disturb the mind and chill the soul...
...state court enjoined civil rights leaders from "participating in, financing, sponsoring, encouraging or engaging in meetings or other activities" that could lead to a violation of state or local law, or "engaging in any act in a violent and tumultuous manner, or holding unlawful assemblies such as to unreasonably disturb or alarm the public within the city of Danville." That covered just about anything a civil rights organization dreams of doing...
...ought to be according to the aspirations of our soul." Kafka was similarly obsessed, but he found the distance between God and Man unbridgeable, while Betti bridged it by daring to revert to orthodox Christian doctrine. Not a play to stir the passions or warm the heart but to disturb the mind and chill the soul, this exceptional off-Broadway production is an intellectual and spiritual jewel in the theater's cardboard crown...