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TINY ALICE. Mystification is the end result of Edward Albee's quasi-metaphysical suspense melodrama centering on the relationship between a lay brother (John Gielgud) and the richest woman in the world (Irene Worth). The burden of feeling rests on the language and a completely competent cast...
TINY ALICE. Mystification is the end result of Edward Albee's quasi-metaphysical suspense melodrama centering on the relationship between a lay brother (John Gielgud) and the richest woman in the world (Irene Worth). The burden of feeling rests on the language and a supremely competent cast...
TINY ALICE, by Edward Albee. Life is a many-symboled thing in this opaque play of the post-Christian ethos. Paradoxically, Alices only emotional vitality stems from Christian symbols and experience. The language is sometimes eloquent but often merely prolix. The cast, headed by John Gielgud, is a marvel...
...which has not unduly saddened Albee. "I'd rather have people talk about what it's about than have nothing to discuss at all," he says. "This play is not perfect. All plays have flaws. But I don't think it is obscure. Brother Julian [Gielgud] is in the same position as the audience. He's the innocent. If you see things through his eyes, you won't have any trouble at all." But the playwright confesses: "There are some things in the play that are not clear...
When the audience first sees Irene Worth as Alice, the play's only woman, she is pretending to be an old hag, wearing a mask and leaning on a couple of canes. "How do you do?" says Gielgud to her. "How do I do what?" she says. That bit of dialogue was exchanged between Snow White and Grumpy in Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Ah, so, heigh-ho. Gielgud is Snow White, and sensual Alice is Grumpy. But isn't she really the Virgin Mary? Doesn't she wear the Madonna...