Word: endless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prayer and self-denial: "I know they are dissatisfied, because I keep them dissatisfied!" In the meantime, he has delusions of grandeur and "a weakness for women." To his people, he remains a holy man, but to the audience, Jero is a fast-talking, joke-cracking observer of the endless silliness that is life...
...throughout Europe, he is particularly interested in the rich American market, where he has limited sales to such pricy outlets as Manhattan-based Bloomingdales, Dallas' Neiman-Marcus and Southern California's Bullocks. Even so, he insists the set "is not a toy. Its uses are endless-at sporting events, on a boat, commuting by train, for automobile passengers...
However, the games must go on between them unless they want to go indoors and share the dispiriting company of the televegetables and endure endless chronicles of aches and pains. They enumerate their own heart burns between the games. Weller is divorced, alienated from his family, and went broke in business when he was fleeced by his partners. Fonsia threw her husband out (or perhaps devoured him) and so estranged her only son that he won't even come to see her on visitors' days. Unfortunately, information delivered as narration chloroforms an audience rather than charging it with...
Stone's disorganized plot banks on a much stronger set of characterizations, resulting in a fairly good script and stage presentation. Complex centers around Cap'm, Andy Birsh, who is also the play's director. Birsh is a lunatic with an endless supply of cash, using apartment D-21 as the setting for his heroic delusions. Like Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim, Birsh imagines himself as constantly in peril; his rantings range from being a beseiged military commander to a revolutionary writer captured by a dictator...
Admittedly, the twists and turns of the plot are thoroughly absorbing. When all the endless viciousness becomes tiresome, this is in fact the only quality which holds the play together. Deeper elements are hinted: all sorts of unnamed fears, complicated hatreds, distortions of familial roles... but for all the overt turbulence, the inner voices remain mute...