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Memoir or anti-memoir - by any name, the book is bound to be a bestsell er. All through his adult life Author Andre Malraux has been I'homme en gage, a committed man whose activities capture the popular imagination. As a young student of Oriental archaeology, he was once jailed for trying to cart away from the Cambodian jungle some ancient Khmer statues that he admired...
...Larry Gage obscurs what should be clear. Gage didn't encourage the rebel to rave and weep and spew out his god-damns. Richard Silberg never wallowed in some old lady's death, never whined about his life. Too much taste was his problem...
...Gage took more bit out of the rebellion by miscasting the rest of the actors. Dave LeMire (Colonel Redfern) played a representative aristocrat. He used a pursed-lipped, hoity-toity voice as phoney as his old age lines. The result was that the contest between classes and between generations wasn't credible. Chris Hart (Cliff Lewis) is a dewy-eyed boy instead of a babysitting adult. He made Jimmy Porter sound vaguely professional...
...show's most disturbing gracelessness is Director Gage's blocking. Given a spacious stage, fine lighting and colorful costumes he seems to have taken care to crowd bodies in small spaces and to compose lopsided stage pictures. In lieu of pacing riot scenes--the court-room scene and Toad's return to Toad Hall -- Gage throws his entire cast together for ten-second lumps of chaos, the quickest starting and fastest ending mob actions you've ever seen...
Only once has Gage used his eye effectively: when the four lead animals, carrying candles, slink through an underground passage in front of a banquet table draped with silhouetted ferrets, stoats and weasels in tableau...