Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Also missing from the ceremony were several gloomy prayers warning of the fearful judgment awaiting the departed in the afterlife...
...confused, moody young man named John, of his placidly domestic love relation with Kate, its progressive decay under the influence of his growing fascination with the mysterious Sally, and, finally, of his own violent destruction. It is a strong, simple story, and Edlestein has had the good judgment and integrity to treat it absolutely seriously. His film seldom veers toward the melodramatic and never toward easy undercutting of his characters and their hang-ups. He has set himself a hard task, balancing his story on the fine line between the maudlin and the ridiculous. But his equilibrium is good...
...effort, director Stephen Michaels successfully skirted more difficulties than he has faced head on, and the result is a definite success. The extent of the success is a measure both of the good theatrical judgment of Michaels and his company, and of the tremendous virtue of those elements of the text--the love plots, the broad verbal humor, and the many options for comic stage business--which this production plays...
...Judgment is an uncommon virtue in house theatre. The most obvious temptations are to attempt too much, or to be statisfied with too little. Credit for the mean struck in the Adams House As You Like It must go not only to Michaels and his cast, but also especially to the designer, Randall Darwall, and the costume designer, Mara Stolurow. The canopied, vine-draped setting, as flexibly lit by Donald Blair, manages to provide an unusual number of strong acting areas while evoking by turns both the sharp Arden Winter and the generous Spring...
...neither roots nor an ideal in politics, no sense of where we come from or where we are going . . . Neither in the operations of our business nor in our passing, swiftly forgotten excitements is there a faith or an ethos." But Jaspers does not leave matters with this harsh judgment. He is more than a gadfly...