Word: gamine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shot in the Dark, adapted by Harry Kurnitz from Marcel Achard's Paris hit, L'Idiote, artfully blends bedroom farce and murder mystery. Julie Harris brings her gamin charm to the role of a chambermaid who wakes up in beds she never made...
Julie Harris brings an entire patois of peasant gestures to her role, including a session of silently mouthing something like the Marseillaise when the wheels of justice grind too slowly. Even when the script asks to be played by leer, her gamin charm turns it into innocent merriment, as when she mimics her active lover: "He'd just tear and rip every which way, and I hate sewing." But there are always traces of the Harris poignance, a little girl lost and a trifle afraid, waking up in beds she never made...
...City Center almost every character has his amusing bag of tricks, while Robert Hirsch, as Scapin, is something extra and something different. Looking lithe, gamin, even apache in a very modern way, Hirsch is fun-loving but hardbitten, a kind of acrobatic con man, up to every trick, on to every wile, physically all bounce, mentally all barbed wire. Hirsch's Scapin seems even more resourceful than Molière's, and on a stage full of antique, chattering magpies and grinning dolls and grimacing puppets, he is a kind of unpredictable mechanical toy with, at moments, shock...