Word: giruadoux
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Director Michael Murray achieves the difficult and peculiar French balance between comedy and intellectuality. His direction prevents side-spiting distractions from Giruadoux's pointed satire, and, partly through effective cutting of several long speeches, maintains lightness of faint. He touches, but doesn't overwhelm, the last act with shades of the pathetic and the ridiculous. The resuits are sublime...
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