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...staging Under Milk Wood as a simple reading was one mistake, staging it as a farce was another. The play leaves an acrid taste behind unless the inhabitants of Llareggub, Thomas's imaginary Welsh backwater, retain their basic dignity. We follow them through a typical spring day -- eavesdropping as they dream, work, gossip, wish, torment one another, and frolic in the hay -- and almost everyone is bizarre and funny. But the purpose of the tour is to change our minds, to make us see the human beings behind the aberrations. If our feelings don't change and deepen, if automatic...
...best back-alley art: Under Milk Wood, a fresh retelling of life in the village Dylan Thomas waggishly named Llareggub; Call Me by My Rightful Name, an astringent tale of racial misfits by New Playwright Michael Shurtleff; The American Dream, Edward Albee's effective dissection of modern man; The Connection, a relentless study of narcotics and nihilists; The Zoo Story, another Albee commentary, wedded to Samuel Beckett's monologue, Krapp's Last Tape; In the Jungle of Cities, Bertolt Brecht's intriguing early effort; Hedda Gabler, an excellent production of the Ibsen classic; and the durable...
...prose is Welsh; he can be language-drunk or sly with bawdry, as Dylan Thomas was when he named the village in Under Milk Wood "Llareggub." As for the roarious Jethro, he is engaging as a boy, but loses credibility as he grows older; he is forever lapsing into derring-do, despite the derring-don'ts of his womenfolk. At the end, he escapes a platoon of dragoons and a mine cave-in, and boards ship for the U.S. Cordell can be counted on to tell more of this lad, who will arrive in the New World in good...
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