Word: farcial
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...incidentally, helped keep culture alive in Baltimore several years ago as director of that city's only professional repertory company--has attempted to establish a dream-like atmosphere from the very beginning. The actors play their parts broadly, with much mugging, and the overall impression is of a farcial comedy--an effect that leaves the audience unprepared for the fundamentally serious fantasy that follows...
After the Rain, to judge by a modestly incomprehensible press release, is a "British farcial satire" about some criminals in the year 2176 who apparently put on a play, while hypnotized by the Lecturer, about "your ancestors" who survived on a raft during the "great Rain" of 1976. The new South House Drama Society, we're asked to believe, chose this play for its inaugural production after discarding Buchner and Shaw. Where have you been, my blue-eyed son? Tomorrow and Sunday at 7:30, Saturday at 2, in the Hilles Library Theater...
...austringer's discipline may be a little crazed, but Crews suggests that any obsession is better than inane passivity. And the latter quality is all that George can see in the Southern Gothic remnants who make up his family and friends. As George passes through a series of farcial set pieces (a woozy pot-smoking session at a residence for Florida State University students, a ghastly 4 a.m. confrontation with an embalmer in a mortuary), everything except the hawk seems to him as phony as his girl friend's orgasms...