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TINY ALICE. Edward Albee's opaque allegory peddles the fallacy that the pure in heart are mortally vulnerable before institutionalized worldliness. The symbols tinkle hollowly, but the theatricality of the play is electrically charged by John Gielgud and Irene Worth.
The two women are portrayed with equal skill. Lila Kedrova plays the old courtesan. Draped in bitten furs and clutching a parasol, she is grotesque, pitiful--and yet you can believe that once she was beautiful enough to charm all those admirals. Irene Pappas plays the young widow with the...
TINY ALICE. Everyone's afraid of Alice in Edward Albee's brainteaser, though no one seems to know who she is. John Gielgud and Irene Worth are excellent in the respective roles of a lay brother and the world's richest woman.
THEATER On Broadway TINY ALICE. Everyone's afraid of Alice in Edward Albee's brain teaser, though no one seems to know who she is. John Gielgud and Irene Worth are excellent in the respective roles of a lay brother and the world's richest woman.
TINY ALICE. Mystification is the end result of Edward Albee's quasi-metaphysical suspense melodrama centering on the relationship between a lay brother (John Gielgud) and the richest woman in the world (Irene Worth). The burden of feeling rests on the language and a completely competent cast.