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...political hay wagon is towards the North Harvard renewal site. And the from the tiny kite-shaped hardly a thousand feet on longest side, may prove well the pickings for certain...
...Shrewsbury during the War of the Spanish Succession. Brecht changed the time to 1776; his Captain Plume is the hero of Bunker Hill (he won the battle by cutting open a dike so that the American "dirt farmers" fled to try to save their fields). He and Sergeant Kite are unable to recruit men successfully by legal means; they try various tricks and finally resort to a morality campaign which "cleans up" Shrewsbury by having a justice of the peace find the community's able-bodied poor guilty of assorted petty crimes. For punishment they are enlisted into Plume...
Bruce Kornbluth's Sergeant Kite is a masterpiece of Villainy; his masquerades as a lady fortune-teller and as a preacher are splendidly done. K. Lype O'Dell's Balance and David Meneghal's Brazen are fine comic parts. In a moment of inspiration, Chapman Laurence Senetlick in the relatively minor role of Simpkins, and Senelick's sniggering, swaggering portrayal of the only poor man who lines up with the bourgeoisie (he's Justice Balance butler) justifies him. Simpkins' description of Bunker Hill is one of the highlights of the evening...
HALF A SIXPENCE skims along as lightly as a kite, kept in motion by the airy charm of cockney Song-and-Dance-Man Tommy Steele. Kipps, the H. G. Wells story of a rags-to-riches-to-rags-to-riches hero, provides the plot for this pleasant musical...
HALF A SIXPENCE skims along as lightly as a kite, kept in motion by the airy charm of cockney Song-and-Dance-Man Tommy Steele. Kipps, the H. G. Wells story of a rags-to-riches-to-rags-to-riches hero, pro vides the plot for this pleasant musical...