Word: everymanic
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Running from class to class, library to library, hourly to hourly, you must have stopped and asked yourself, "Can this really be my life?" So you think you're confused? Think how Littlechap the Everyman hero of Stop the World I Want to Get Off, opening tonight at Mather House, feels: he watches his life pass from inside a circus arena. Littlechap travels to Russia, to Germany, to success in America at the top of a company; he becomes deeply involved with four women who bear a strange resemblance to each other. But instead of finding happiness...
...made not just one but many, many mistakes. In fact, quantity is the problem in this story of an English man of the lower class who has nothing but a series of misadventures with the four women in his life. The Mather House production of this modern everyman that opens November 3 will emphasize the desperate need for escape that results when all four women are played by the same actress. On a stark stage there seems nowhere in the world to turn...
...Committee stories bear repeating as often as Grimm because they correspond to the screenwriters' own self-image at the moment. For years they had been the leftists who sat by pools in their Hawaiian print shirts, hauling in $1500 a week. Suddenly they were Everyman again, the Everyman they had been writing dialogue for for years. They harbored the screenwriters' dream--to play their own words. When the chance came, they were so noble, so articulate, so right, that almost nobody believed them--anymore than anybody could really believe what they had been writing for the screen all that time...
...himself terribly thin to hold together his disparate coalition of support. It reaches from the conservative South through the industrial North, and Carter's politics of reconciliation often leads him into telling various factions what he thinks will best keep them with him. One critic has labeled him Everyman-the candidate who needs everyone's vote. In the debates, all these factions will be listening together and Carter will have to address them as one constituency...
...almost certain to be more impressive than substance. If Carter comes across as a believable man, capable and fair, he will undoubtedly attract that controlling group of voters who are eager for a change. But if he shows poorly, is seen as calculating or waffling or brittle, his Everyman could turn into No Man, the candidate who reached for so many constituencies that he wound up with none...