Word: idiotically
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...inheritance by his father's fatal eccentricity. (The old man accidentally hung himself to death in a cocktail hour habit of stringing himself up by the neck in ballerina regalia.) But Jack is a paranoid schizophrenic who believes he is the God of Love, a charming and loveable idiot who can't stop raving about goodness and love. (Jack's explanation for his divine identity is this: "When I pray to Him, I find I'm talking to myself...
...least it lacked the self-conscious nervousness that runs through this effort. In Fairy Tale, Segal does not even reach the heights attained by Jonathan Livingston Seagull. For some reason, every time he has the opportunity, he takes the cheap shot, makes some inane remark, or collapses into an idiot's snideness...
WHEN EMILY MANN'S PRODUCTION of Robert Montgomery's Subject to Fits becomes good theater, and good art, the Loeb stage is set spinning with the whirl of a dance of living death. All of the characters in this "response to Dostoyevski's The Idiot" are trapped in individual hells, and in the bigger hell of the universe, and when they are forced to test their limits and laugh at them, human strength has a chance to win a sane survival. In morbid party games, in psychic tortures gleefully inflicted and returned, Mann's and Montgomery's cast of depraved...
MANN STICKS CLOSELY to Montgomery's scenario, and sends it off with the balletic theatrics and vivid emotionalism needed to give it effect. The entire play is enacted on a stage base except for a canvas-sectioned backdrop behind which white figures rhythmically evoke the contortions of the Idiot's mind, and a series of ramps, stairs and platforms which provide as many stages within the stage as the situations demand. Mann uses this excellent Peter Agoos set (he also did the costumes) to help us keep track of all the characters' forward motion without upsetting the fluidity...
...Rogozhin is often caught between a swagger and a simper, and his rasping voice occasionally cracks, but his part is that of a hard on personified to both sexes, and I can't imagine how else he'd be able to play it as written. Bernard Holmberg's Idiot is sufficiently strong to hold the production together, keeping the lid on a certain hermaphroditic unctuousness which is inherent in the role; and he does toss a mean epileptic...