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...GEORGE by Frank Marcus is an abrasive English comedy of cruelty about the games Lesbians play. Beryl Reid, Eileen Atkins and Lally Bowers are expert and subtle as three witches and their vivid interpretations of the foolish and servile, the vain and the vile, stir up a cauldron of laughter...
...wide musical spectrum ranging from pious Gregorian chants to the dry linearity of the twelve-tone school. In a fresh departure from the Passions of Bach and Telemann, his chorus participates as well as comments, punctuating Christ's ascent to Calvary with hisses, shouts and mocking laughter, while the music quavers and sighs in sympathetic counterpoint. With the lean, clean strokes of a fencer, Penderecki slices to the heart of the Passion, revealing through the intolerance shown to one man the tragedy...
...Lally Bowers brush in the characters of the other two witches. Frank Marcus' spoofing of the BBC is the weakest aspect of his play, but his stingingly unsentimental probe of what is foolish, vile, vain, concupiscent, and servile in the human animal stirs up a cauldron of laughter...
...Sense of Play. What is needed, he suggests, is more laughter among parents, children and teachers, since laughter "opens pathways to the discovering spirit," produces "a shared understanding," and "like love, it demands response." He argues that in their obsession with work, Americans have lost their "sense of play"; yet "the children's world must be our world, too. We may have to ask our way in, and we may be impolitely and properly asked out, but we must be there, if only to be looked at and puzzled over." Eble regrets the stuffiness of teachers' colleges that...
Louis was infinitely tolerant of those who could be received at Versailles, but he drew the line at sodomy and laughing too loudly at Mass. The laughter he suppressed, but there was nothing much he could do about sodomy, since his brother, the Due d'Orleans, and his best general, old Vendóme, were notorious sodomites. The black arts were another thing Louis frowned on. Witchcraft, magic, and a Parisian underworld of pimps and professional poisoners had been involved in a plot to eclipse the Sun King...