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...JOHN HOUSEMAN...
...four, John House man (then Jacques Haussmann) had spent two birthdays on the Simplon-Orient Express. It is an image with which to connect the 70 years that have gone into this urbane, fascinating and graceful memoir. Houseman was and is a restless, slightly exotic voy ager through life and drama...
This is in marked contrast to the Festival's only other production of the work, which John Houseman directed eleven years ago. In 1959, we saw an impressively sober and severe version, which underlined the profoundly serious content to be found in the text. Make no mistake: not everything Shakespeare wrote into the play was a laughing matter. As its title suggests, the work is among other things a study in the ethical question of whether the end justifies the means. It also explores the essence of personal honor, the proper nature of marriage, and the relative importance of worth...
Dancing with Daddy. The Exhibitionist is the story of a beautiful film star-Jet Merry Houseman, whose father is a fading movie idol. The plot is hardly original. Merry is an oversexed girl in search of herself, but she looks mostly in other people's beds. What she finds there is a variety of sexual activity ranging from earnest fornication through onanism, homosexuality, and-since these pursuits are so familiar to fiction nowadays-some rather esoteric variations. The denouement takes place at a masked ball, where the participants shed everything but their masks. And who should end up dancing...
...period. For the most part they are of gray and black, though Macbeth and his wife are symbolically garbed in blood-red on their first entrance as king and queen. There is rather too much of John Duffy's dissonant and ominous background music, for which Houseman's Hollywood career is again perhaps responsible...