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Entranced by these lover-like words, Miss Stanton-Lacey returned his embrace with fervor, and meekly allowed herself to be led off to the stables...
...MAYBELLE LACEY...
...length drama by Britain's Paul Ableman, 45, who has previously written three novels and some 50 abstract and surrealist playlets. Like most plays of this sort, Green Julia is low on action and high on intensity of situation. The only characters that the audience sees are Robert Lacey, a young plant physiologist, and Jacob Perew, a young economist. For some time, Perew (John Pleshette) and Lacey (Fred Grandy) have shared a flat in an English university town. They also share an active fantasy life which is hilariously funny yet shadowed by increasing hysteria. In this relationship Lacey...
...caricature voices, "Carruthers" plays bishop to "Bradshaw's" priest, pukka sahib to his native, officer to his enlisted man, and schoolmaster to his pupil. The bantering wit of this role playing does not entirely disguise its hidden psychological vengeance. In these games, it is Perew who dominates and Lacey who is dependent and vulnerable...
Perew is leaving for the Far East, and we watch him try to pull one last manipulative ploy. He wants to saddle Lacey with his mistress, a promiscuous lush 14 years his senior who hangs out at a local pub called The Green Man. She is the unseen Julia of the title. Lacey refuses, but that scarcely settles the questions Playwright Ableman tantalizingly raises. Is Perew merely a heel trying to avoid emotional remorse? Is he, perhaps, more in love with Julia than he lets on, enough to want to soften the blow of his departure? Is it possible that...