Word: humor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mayer seems to have captured in his mind both the humor of the play and the dark question underneath, it but as of yet, he hasn't gotten it all onstage. Mayer, as always, has orchestrated constant movement for his actors, individually and ensemble. But his cast swears awfully hard following his directions...
...actors who are always in control are Kaplan and Miss Archer. Kaplan's Wong has a strongly Yiddish flavor, much like Sholom Alcichem's dairyman Tevye before Broadway got to him. But the resemblance--the good humor in despair, the pleading with the marvelously impotent gods, the befuddled good intentions--is in Brecht's script as well as Kaplan's portrayal. Miss Archer has warmth, a versatile vocal range, the ability to switch swiftly between the two parts she must play, and good legs...
...Holbrook brings the man from Hannibal, Mo., back to life in a one-man show, he seems a snow-thatched Jove who has laid aside punitive thunderbolts for lightning strokes of irony and mirth. The format is that of Twain's turn-of-the-century lectures; the wry humor is of the moment...
...such vigorous habits, and Lord Moran's critics may be excused their squeamishness at seeing it so clearly documented. But except for his very last days, Churchill had the consolation of memory. "He always goes back to the Boer War when he is in a good humor," wrote Moran. "That was before war degenerated. It was fun galloping about...
...week Harvard Brechfest, A Man's a Man much resembles a glass of orange juice: acid, topped with froth, filled with stray bits of pith, and innocent of dramatic structure. Though technically clumsy, the Kirkland House production of this laboriously didactic work has its moments of low humor and sardonic truth. Its faults, for the most part, stem from the Brechtian bric-a-brac with which director Peter Weil has burdened the show...