Word: humors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whose anxiety about preparing for a dinner party provides the backdrop of this cosmic comedy of manners. In the first scene, Prum stands center stage with his head inside a miniature version of his living room, nervously shooting the breeze but getting tripped up by his moribund sense of humor. You know the scene: you're standing at the potato dip and the only small-talk subjects that come to mind have to do with dead cats and getting your stomach pumped...
That is just a sample of the riotous legal humor in the Harvard Law School Drama Society's annual fall musical revue, which opened last night at Pound Hall...
Enter Mr. McGrath, with his production of Richard's Cork Leg, a bawdy, bizarre drama of Irish humor and politics. Richard's Leg should have been the foot in the door for a mass audience at the Loeb. To some extent it succeeds, but like a badly coached team, Leg trips over the basics...
...their more active comrades. Cronin's attempt to seduce a young lady (Catherine Harris) in the cemetery becomes a bizarre waltz of carpe diem, pitting his hedonistic wit against the all-too-serious violent intentions of his fellows. By intermission, the audience is hooked by the bizarre humor and intriguing scenarios of the first...
Crisp seems to espound sincerely his philosophy of self-absorption, but with a sardonic humor that would make both Ayn Rand and W.C. Fields proud. It's simultaneously a deadly serious manifesto for happiness whose key points are hilariously funny. It's no wonder that Crisp has developed such a following. He does tell egos what they want to hear...