Word: hunchback
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...want to tell you about the plot, but let me not briefly that the single thing that would make this production more cohesive would be an extraordinary Mathilde von Sahnd. Joan Abrahams, strapped into a hunchback's brace, must be a real contortionist to get through the evening; she plays the role quietly and competently. A performer with greater vitality might somehow have been able to suggest the importance and the ominousness of this figure. The production's asscts include a splendid set by Donald Mullin and fine lighting by Don Cate...
...opera's great characterizations as the lecherous old swindler in RCA Victor's Falstaff, amply supported by the other singers and by Conductor Georg Solti. In Rigoletto (Deutsche Grammophon), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. best known for his sorrowful lieder. proves himself equally expressive as the tragic hunchback in a powerful performance led by Rafael Kubelik...
What seems to keep them unhinged in Act I is the sheer lack of anything to do. Newton fiddles with his curly 18th century wig, Einstein saws at his fiddle, while Solomon keeps listening for those voices in his head. The lady hunchback (Jessica Tandy) who manages this loony bin shuffles around like a witch off a broomstick. Her charges all murder their nurses...
...hospital psychiatrist, would actually like to convert her. He has written a daring little psychological masterpiece called Masturbation Nowl In it, he contends that "heterosexual love-making is the root of all neuroses, a shabby illusion which misleads the ego." But Krankeit is the exception. Others, like a hunchback in Green-wich, have one simple desire...
...those who find the building intriguing in such respects as its constantly changing appearance as one walks past it, there are probably as many who feel that its style fits poorly with the buildings around it, that the third floor studio looks from Oxford St. like a hunchback on stilts, or that the large lecture room resembles a multi-colored gas chamber...