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Their production of Genet's Deathwatch is no main event. The prison in which the play is set is suggested so stingily by a few black and white stripes that it looks like a mutated peppermint stick. A fishing net hangs inexplicably above the stage, and the lighting is dim and obscure. Someone apparently forgot that people pay their money to see something, and deserve more than arty darkness...
...Jean Genet has been in prison, and his insights into the smothered aspirations and inarticulate regrets of jailed men are occasionally penetrating and even beautiful. But Louis Lopez-Cepere as the effeminate kid, Maurice, and George Quenzel as the poseur, LeFranc, shout and gesticulate until you can no longer hear M. Genet. Maurice is turned into such a hyperbolized fairy that his pathetic love and desperation become the cheapest banality. His real groping for affection is represented by nine or ten unctuous lunges at his cellmates. As for Quenzel, someone must have told him that the more important a line...
...Jean Genet's The Blacks, a savage allegory of racial antagonisms that range over the whole color spectrum, is the best bargain on the subway circuit. Genet's jaundiced view of life is also represented in The Balcony, in which the world is seen as the inside of a brothel. Rising Playwright Edward Albee has not yet gone the distance, but has built a considerable reputation on such hard-hitting one-acters as The American Dream and The Death of Bessie Smith, now playing on a dual bill. Also recommended: Anne Meacham as a superb Hedda Gabler...
...Jean Genet's The Blacks, a mocking kaleidoscopic allegory of race hatred, is probably the most interesting item around. Genet's other long-running offering is The Balcony, an amusing charade in which the world is seen as a vast brothel. Rising Dramatist Edward Albee, who has not yet written a full-length play, has built a reputation on lonesco-like one-acters, of which The American Dream and The Death of Bessie Smith are now on view. Also recommended: Hedda Gabler, with Anne Meacham doing Ibsen to the hilt-and Under Milk Wood, a fine performance...
...Jean Genet's The Blacks, a mocking, kaleidoscopic allegory of race hatred, is probably the most interesting item around. Genet's other long-running offering is The Balcony, an amusing charade in which the world is seen as a vast brothel. Rising Dramatist Edward Albee, who has not yet written a full-length play, has built a reputation on Ionesco-like one-acters, of which The American Dream and The Death of Bessie Smith are now on view. The classics are represented by an exciting and remarkably durable Hamlet at the Phoenix, and by Hedda Gabler, with Anne...