Word: dunnock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prevailing mood of this play is that of a fitful breeze stirring faded autumn leaves. Its central figure is an old woman (Mildred Dunnock) haunted by her impending death. She ruminates on many things and, like the play itself, comes to grips with none. Known only as "The Mother," she talks of old age, of passions spent and love unrequited, of parenthood and the serpents' teeth of thankless children. Since the play was originally written some 20 years ago by French Novelist, Dramatist and Film Writer Duras, it is very much in the theater-of-the-absurd tradition...
They are up to it. Dunnock unfalteringly reveals the interwoven strands of love and hate in a mother's heart, and Joseph Maher is splendid in conveying the sleazy, yet captivating charm of one of life's eternal dropouts...
...Death of A Salesman is still playing at Tufts Arena Theater, but no matter. Wait till it's on t.v. again with Cobb and Dunnock. It's too good a play to fool around with. The intransigent can call 623-3880 if they want more info...
Kate Reid's Big Mama is hyperactive, rowdy, and gross. This is far different from Mildred Dunnock on Broadway, but it is closer to what Williams indicates in the text, where Big Mama is likened to a "Japanese wrestler." Miss Reid has a way of sitting with her legs apart in a most unladylike fashion, and vomits the word "crap" so as to make it seem the vilest word ever invented. Her characterization makes Big Mama and Big Daddy almost two of a kind--which is something of a novelty...
...Tufts Arena Theater. The Arthur Miller is as American as apple pie, and undeniably a great play. It's very emotionally and theatrically demanding, though, and it's hard to think of this production doing poor Willy Loman justice. If you've never seen Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock do the play on stage or on television, you might be satisfied with the treatement it gets up in Medford. You can find out for $3.50 at 8:15 tonight and tomorrow...