Word: dream
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even Barbie can't keep up that whirlwind pace indefinitely. This season she has a place of her own, the "dream house" ($115) where she can ponder the more serious questions she faces as an adult. Barbie can cook dinner in her microwave oven, relax in her beauty bath, or read on her single...
...fragility and warmth that is distinctly not zoo-like. All too human, The Glass Menagerie remembers the post-adolescent longing for freedom and adventure of a young poet caged in a fading, depressionistic tenement, but more, it characterizes the last generation that could daydream innocently. That era's dream machines were the phonograph and the movie projector, but they worked songs and pictures that opened romantic vistas so different from today's defined and redefined motion-coloring-books. The surpisingly good production at South House evokes Menagerie's melancholy past but knows also our electro-mood present and cries beautifully...
...enough, not isolated enough. A perch on the fire escape/balcony, even a stroll nearer the audience would have been a nice touch. The lighting was properly dim, but the frequent blackouts for scene changes were too stark, too sudden, t.v.-like, often disturbing the sense of a flow of dream images. Finally, Williams' script calls for fiddle music at the beginning and end of the play, framing it in a Southern, story-telling manner but also providing an old-fashioned whine, a tug into the heart of this play and a sorrowful serenade at the finish. There is sometimes...
...after lights-out? Dreams, of course. Few black-and-white drawings have caught their incongruous logic as well as The Garden of Abdul Gasazi (Houghton Mifflin; $8.95). A suburban boy takes a nap on a magical couch. When he rises, he finds himself in a twilit garden, owned by an ominous wizard in a fez. Nothing is quite the same, not even his pet. The fat man's hobby: turning pet dogs into ducks. Long after the spell ends, an eerie residue remains, like a dream that persists in the waking world. Chris Van Allsburg's narrative leans...
...cornerstone of that dream shatters in the climax of the film. A drunken Rose telephones her parents from the high school football field where the team once gangbanged her on the 50-yard line. This time, she's having a sell-out concert "back home." As she adds lethal drugs to the tequila already churning in her empty stomach, Rose tries to talk to these aged strangers. They're not coming to her concert, and they can't help her now. They never could. Like the singer, the American Dream and the American family are dead...