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...Casey Stengel, Willie McCovey, Mack Jones...
Granted that premise, this production is riveting. As a monocled Mack the Knife, Raul Julia moves like a Fred Astaire of gangsterdom, sometimes prowling for his favorite whore, Jenny (Ellen Greene). C.K. Alexander's Mr. Peachum-the Fagin of London's turn-of-the-century beggars-might have been drawn by George Grosz. The Kurt Weill score, too renowned for praise (Mack the Knife, Pirate Jenny), is superbly rendered. This Threepenny Opera honors the Brecht who wrote with a hammer and swung a sickle. T.E, Kalem
...Mack's respect for Lawrence's intellect, charm, and sense of play yields a portrait that is not only comprehensive but compassionate, and never smacks of facile, "shrinky" cheapness. Several admirers have called Lawrence a Hamlet for our times. Mack demonstrates how the overdose of insight and self-consciousness that kept Hamlet from ever doing anything in another epoch forced Lawrence to take action in a compulsive...
...with any psycho-historical interpretation, though, A Prince of Our Disorder leaves one with the uneasy feeling that these neat themes may be too neat. In fact, the awesome load of testimony and historical background Mack has collected seems to almost defy generalizations. Mack has not only amassed what must amount to a warehouse full of notes--his text is followed with not less than 56 pages of footnote--he seems to have felt an obligation to use them all. (He informs us at one point that on a post-war trip through southern Europe, Lawrence stopped over in Albania...
STILL, HISTORICAL PRECISION and a thorough consideration of where the evidence is coming from give Mack's work strength. In his preface, Mack says he undertook the Lawrence project with a prejudice in favor of a much more psycho-analytical explanation of his subject; but the more he discovered the more he became convinced, he writes, that Lawrence's unusual place in history was of central importance. E.M. Forster wrote about Lawrence that in an age of faith he might have become a monk, or at least a holy crusader who continued to believe in his lost cause...