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...Larry Finnegan, (Dear...
Even the Irish, with their taste for enjoying their troubles, admit that a wake can go on too long for everybody but the corpse. And Finnegans Wake is the longest wake in history. It is also the most conjested wake in history: hundreds of fictional and historical characters dance attendance on poor Finnegan as he is laid out over 628 pages...
...sharp, funny one-act play, written by Slawomir Mrozek and translated from Polish, Charlie deals with three characters and one problem. The characters are an oculist of rather flexible moral convictions (Paul Benedict), an old man with a loaded gun and bad vision (Edward Finnegan), and his solicitous, direct grandson (Richard Shepard). These last two are country people, and they see the problem as a simple one: Grandpa wishes to kill something named "Charlie"; he needs some glasses to recognize him. The doctor has difficulty understanding, though...
...lone representative of middle-class moralism, the doctor takes a series of questionable positions on this problem. Mr. Shepard and Mr. Finnegan neatly present their doggedly simple, suspicious characters they provide the perfect backdrop for Mr. Benedict's gorgeous moral acrobatics...
...Lane makes excellent use of her plastic features and voice to characterize Mrs. Hudd. Slowly her voluble good spirits curdle into nervousness and sorrow. Ed Finnegan also gives an outstanding performance, musing and whining with great finesse as the elderly Mr. Kidd. Dustin Hoffman plays Mr. Hudd with realistic stolidness. The other parts are handled skillfully by Paul Benedicts, Vera Lee, and Lester Gilmore...