Word: kendale
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...elaborate opening chase sequence that deliberately recalls bedroom farce in its slamming of doors and dropping of trousers -- or not enough of one to offer any real surprises. Stoppard radiates ambivalence about the genre he has chosen. Again, as with Shaffer, redemption comes from the marvelous acting of Felicity Kendal as an intelligence agent painfully aware of her shortcomings as a mother, Nigel Hawthorne as a wise colleague and, above all, Roger Rees as the defector, who is also the secret father of Kendal's schoolboy son. The spellbound joy and agony on his face as he listens mutely...
...aborted when his ship became trapped in the Antarctic ice. But few dramas have told a more inspiring tale of man against nature or better conveyed the excitement of a great period of exploration. Another winning import is Solo, a wry sitcom starring the delightful Felicity Kendal as a single woman who dumps her boyfriend, quits her job and tries to start a new life...
...firm. Draper Labs, that employs only 180 Cambridge residents. In the two year transition period allowed by the law. Draper Labs could easily use its expertise to find other work for its employees. Should Draper decide to leave town the current rapid expansion of high tech industry in Kendal Square would quickly reoccupy the Drager building and re-employ all available workers...
...heart, one that bathes in the mess of human emotions instead of applying the dramatist's laws of geometry and physics. "I'm sorry," says Henry in one of the play's most telling domestic exchanges. "What for?" asks his actress wife Annie (Felicity Kendal). "I don't know," he replies. Stoppard knows how to write love...
Kevin Conway paints a psychograph of Treves, each brush stroke subtler than the last, the kindest of healers plagued with the darkest of self-doubts. And Carole Shelley's Mrs. Kendal - curious, amused, emotionally generous - is a womanly oasis, and like the play itself, no mirage in a parched season. - T. E. Kalem