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Pirandello's Henry IV is a rich, in tricate tapestry of past and present, illusion and reality, love, jealousy and revenge, woven around a madman-hero - a philosopher-king on the grand scale of the philosopher-prince of Denmark. Admirably revived by the Yale School of Drama Repertory Theater, the 46-year-old play shimmers with existential immediacy...
...desert 25 years ago. Among other specials in debut last week: CBS's "Flanders and Swann," a wryly amusing hour, but too familiar to anyone who had seen the British song-and-patter team on Broadway; and CBS's dramatization of Gogol's Diary of a Madman, which, while a triumph for French Actor Roger Cog-gio, who learned the English dialogue phonetically, was too lacking in action to satisfy the visual demands...
DIARY OF A MADMAN (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Nicolai Gogol's story of the mental disintegration of a government clerk, as performed by French Actor Roger Coggio...
...clothes off. Hoare gave absurdity its due: he relished his prose almost as much as he relished the illusive charmer. But when he stood before a tribunal consisting of his pals--they gave him the choice of pleading Guilty or Very Guilty--he dropped all rhetoric, became a madman in a circle of worse madness. A ludricous, touching performance...
...created an "atmosphere of a crumbling dictatorship in time of martial law." It is a serious charge, which Kozol supports with more rhetoric than hard facts. His own prose style is larded with prejudice (School Committee Member Lee "looked out over his half-moon glasses almost like a childish madman"). Some of his statements are pure bathos; when a blackboard falls on a girl's desk, Kozol asks: "Was she saying with those eyes which looked down so steadily, as if with apology, that she really felt very sorry and did not mean to have gotten her small head...