Word: eldritch
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...CLEAR exactly what Lanford Wilson was trying to do with The Rimers of Eldritch. Rimers came out of the late 1960's a curious kind of half-breed. It broke from the traditional comedy or love-story categories into which most of Wilson's later work falls fairly neatly. It's not a murder mystery or a western, as the sensational excerpt on the publicity posters around campus might suggest. Instead, it's an early and uncertain try at experimental theater, one that ends up as a modern mood piece, a stained glass of many parts through which a light...
...distance, precisely, from hurrah to blah. The time of the drop was nearly instantaneous. One moment Lake Placid was the most tumultuous news spot on earth, the next it was an amiable litter of vacancy signs. One moment it was the riveting center of the media's eldritch universe; the next it was just another out-of-the-way resort more or less waiting for next summer's convention of volunteer firemen...
...attitude that gave rise to these suits is showing itself more and more wherever Americans venture risks. That means everywhere because the world remains strewn with invisible banana peels and eldritch hazards. "People now feel they have the right to legal redress if anyone or anything imposes upon them and interferes with their ability to enjoy life," says Chicago Lawyer Philip Corboy, whose firm is prosecuting the case against Sears. This "I'm entitled" spirit is spreading so that it is time to wonder: Is there any limit at all to the world's liability for an individual...
...more night of dreams is most uncertain. As the cowled figure grinned and gibbered, I saw his unmistakable prognathous jaw and wide, habitually surprised eyes. And I knew why so many writers have so assiduously emulated How ard Phillips Lovecraft, for hidden in the glistening convolutions of the eldritch imagination, he lives and he commands...
Which is really too bad. The Hub Theatre wants to tell its audience something, and by telling, to learn. The Rimers of Eldritch and the style to which it is limited are simply not capable of producing this kind of realization...