Word: dolls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book, by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, is about a Save-A-Soul Missionary's (Sarah Brown) attempt to convert Broadway's crap-gamesters, Sky, Nathan, and their cohorts, from a life of sin. Sky, always looking for a wager, boasts that he can "get any doll," whereupon Nathan does a slow take in the direction of Sister Sarah, as she sings a processional hymn, "Follow the Fold." "Oh, no...not that'doll'!" exclaims Sky. Of course, Sky and Sarah eventually fall for each other. Mean-while, Sarah's job is jeopardized by her failure to bring in enough lost...
...actors look their parts perfectly--the sexy secretaries, the aging insurance salesmen. But they rely too much on their characterizations. Michael Ricardo's portrayal of Chuck Baxter has in both face and manner a beautifully apt combination of Superboy and kewpie doll. But this is carried no further than his face; as a result he creates a one-dimensional character. Ricardo deserves praise for being able to survive this demanding role--although he doesn't really build a great level of intensity that needs maintaining...
...DOLL'S HOUSE. Joseph Losey's version of the Ibsen classic is frosty and severe, embellished with several clumsy contemporary asides about the injustices heaped on women. It has the vigor and passion of commitment, however, and the cast is superb. Trevor Howard's Dr. Rank is gruffly tender; Delphine Seyrig's Kristine, a woman of tentative but dependable dignity; and Edward Fox's Krogstad, a figure of understandable desperation. David Warner makes Torvald into a complex, insidious but always human figure. It is a performance of the foremost skill and intelligence, and includes...
Oates' point seems to be that both supermen are bested by this apparent power vacuum. Howe cannot stop her from walking out on him-without alimony but picking up the $100 bills he flings after her. This climactic scene echoes Nora's liberation in A Doll's House. Elena comes as close as she ever does to coherent motivation. She is leaving, she says, because "I would be careless of my life if I stayed here ... I might make someone hurt...
...DOLL'S HOUSE, by Henrik Ibsen. This is a play of which I have only seen the Claire Bloom movie, which I liked, though The Crimson's reviewer did not. There is now a Jane Fonda movie as well. A great play. MIT Community Players. Opens tonight at 8 at the Kresge Little Theater...