Word: humors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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True West possesses all the qualities that make Sam Shepard one of America's greatest living dramatists--biting humor, pungently realistic characters, emotional appeal, and an arresting, poignantly developed central conflict. The play treats the struggle between civilization and primitivism; more specifically, between an Ivy League-educated Hollywood screenwriter and his brother, a near-illiterate renegade who has just emerged from five months of solitary foraging in the Mojave Desert. Thrown together in their mother's house--she is vacationing in Alaska and her well-behaved son is baby-sitting her plants--the do-good and the no-good brothers...
THIS SHOULD BE a depressing book: it certainly is not light humor, but irony keeps the plot humorous while Dunne's wonderful handling of colloquial dialogue makes even the most unsavory character somewhat likeable. One woman defends her husband, a heroine addict and convicted burglar...
WITH "KOAX-KOAX-KOAX" and a splash, the Fogg Museum sets out to prove the necessity of art with humor and grace. Presented by the Fine Arts Students Association, the Stephen Sondheim-Burt Sheevelove version of Aristophanes. The Frogs may be the museum's finest piece currently on display, as a small group of actors offer up modern morals and poetry in this classic comedy...
...while her slave opts for a broader comic style, occasionally reminiscent of the Three Stooges. These two mug and grin at each other and, since the Fogg's courtyard leaves both stage and seating level, often draw the audience in on their jokes and jibes. At times their humor is more visual than verbal. Both exhibit the gestures of competent mines, and Mary Fedor's choreography proves their agile, almost acrobatic, skill as well. Nor does the rest of the cast father; from the acting remain continently strong from the major roles through the chorus...
...life, back when those alone were supposed to make a woman happy. Even before Little Ricky's birth, for example, Lucy Ricardo stayed home as a housewife. Her urge to take a job and fulfill ambitions of her own was considered one of the wackier aspects of her humor. Lucy's contemporary Peg Riley (in William Bendix's The Life of Riley, 1953-58) stayed home too, despite the constant money worries stemming from Riley's modest wage as a riveter. And the handful of working women in '50s TV were mostly man-hungry spinsters...