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Daniel Seltzer's Chorus (the Greek group of elders has dwindled to a single tuxedoed commentator who bein harsh and unsparing tones that are properly sepulcomes a sort of auctor ex machina) introduces the play chral. As for the rest, Jane Quigley's nurse, though suffering from an unfeebled voice that sounds as if it has been produced by an excess of cotton, is quite wonderfully aged and querulous; and I would be unfeeling indeed if I failed to mention Theodore Kazanoff's First Guard, the very image of New York's Finest, with a wife and two kids...
...show was stopped too frequently for any one number to be called a show-stopper, though I judge that the Deus ex Machina Mambo ("You can put stock in a/ Deus ex Machina . . .") drew the most protracted applause. In fact, the level of humor was so consistently high up to the end, that the show could almost be accused of lacking variety...
...past his prime, is nicely spoofed by David Rawle. Malcolm Ticknor brings back to Cambridge an expressive voice and face as he plays Paris, the itinerant poet who satisfies the intellectual aspirations of Helen. Another appropriate performance is given by George Richardson, who portrays that efficient executive, Deus ex Machina...
...Lemnos, abandoned by his army because of an infected foot. Odysseus and Neoptolemus, son of Achilles, come to Lemnos to persuade Philoctetes to give them the bow of Heracles. Without it, says the seer Helenus, the Greeks will never capture Troy. After many a stratagem and one deus ex machina, all three embark for Troy with the bow. Sophocles artfully balances these three characters so that at one pole Odysseus represents super-subtlety, and at the other Neoptolemus embodies noble naivete. In the middle is Philoctetes...
More than ten years after the formulation of a plan for the Inner Belt highway, the most that has materialized is inaction and indecision. Particularly in Cambridge, where the road is a political deus ex machina for major urban renewal projects, indecision and factionalism prevail...