Word: fischler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps it is the unfamiliarity which gives the Eliot version of T.S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party its distinct air of uneasiness. Director Ronald Fischler's entire company seems uncomfortable with its medium, too aware of being actors doing things actors ought...
...Fischler has obviously shaped his cast with a firm hand, but either because the hand was too firm or because the cast was too inexperienced, the effect is of posing rather than acting. Valentine Callahan is too much the effusive matron, Richard Deutsch too much the urbane globetrotter, Howard Beale altogether too much the wise but enigmatic doctor. It is as though everyone is expecting a photographer to take his picture at any moment, and by God, he's not going to be caught looking out of character when the flashbulb goes...