Word: humoredly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wesker's chip is on his shoulder, and in heavier hands his play might have been doctrinaire agitprop-wash. It escapes that dreary fate, thanks to the playwright's good humor, dramatic interplay and irony, together with Director John Dexter's drillmasterly pacing. It is, in its own lingo, a scorching fine evening of theater...
Without exception, the actors are equal to their complex parts. Richard Harris vividly portrays Machin's brutality; he also emphasizes Machin's attempt at kindness and his wry humor ("Let me call you sweetheart," he implores Mrs. Hammond as she rants at him.) Rachel Roberts' expressive, bony face clearly reveals Mrs. Hammond's changes of mood...
Barnes, 36, arrived fresh from a twelve-year engagement at the University of Kansas, where he was resident carillonneur, professor of carillon and harpsichord, and curator of rare musical instruments. He brought to Washington the sort of vellum-bound humor acquired in his esoteric calling. "A good organist can adapt to a carillon fairly quickly," he said pleasantly. "In about two years he should have a good start...
Goyen's considerable art has in it something of the exotic fantasy of Ronald Firbank and something of the rough native humor of Ring Lardner-that cruel popular satirist who asked nobody to love his self-convicted subjects...
Unfortunately, the Williamses flourish the needle of humor without jabbing it into any rich vein of comedy. An artificial drawing-room comedy can nurture an earthy home truth. But To Love spouts more poppycock about the parent-child relationship and child rearing than has been heard since Bertrand Russell ran a school where boys and girls played together in the nude. Elegantly gowned by Parisian couturiers, Claudette Colbert, who seems to have a dimple in her voice, whips herself into an understandable motherly and wifely froth. As the son, Robert Drivas is a personable rebel. The evening belongs to Cyril...