Word: helene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...entire planet. Having "free-lanced" the march (I went as a loner and deliberately walked fast in order to take in the panorama of groups coming out for this "big event"). I came away with a much more optimistic feeling about our being able to stop what Helen Caldicott calls Nuclear Madness (the title of her recent book...
...courtship is prickly. At Annie's insistence, John must woo Helen for her consent before he can win Annie for his bride. At first, Helen fears that she will be forced to go back to her parents' home in Alabama and vegetate like "a cow." But between John's charms and Annie's assurances, Helen is won over. She gives her blessing and brings down the first-act curtain with the imperious "You must be married in this house...
...that is the catch, at least for John. They become an odd trio a house of claustrophobia. John soon realizes that he is sharing a situation with his wife, not a life. Though she is desperate for a child, Annie's magnificent obsession and only priority is Helen. John takes to tippling. Tempers flare and caustic words are spoken, especially by Annie, who possesses, as she admits, "a mouthful of boils...
...Helen, the situation is deeply unsettling. She is very pretty (unlike the real Helen) and close to John in age. The nearness of a man in the house has been a spring awakening to her womanhood. So much so, that she and John are almost con-initiators of a seduction scene. When leaves for good, he seems like a strange interlude in both women's lives. In a final tableau, Annie and Helen stand on a darkening stage, their white ankle-length dresses wrapped around them like sails whipped by the wind, knowing that the only safe harbor lies...
Karen Allen's Helen is a mountain brook washing over shining pebbles of self-discovery with a child's delight and limpid innocence. As for Converse-Roberts' John, he is a kind of D'Artagnan, fencing for his life, shielding his love against his love. Among them, Playwright Gibson, Director Arthur Penn and the entire cast ignite one of those blazing bonfires that keep serious dramatic theater inextinguishable...