Word: madwoman
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...small voice issuing from a still smaller chest and her hair cropped as short as a boy's, she managed to convey a blossoming femininity, the seedling woman of passion and perception. She was a sentimental strumpet in I Am a Camera, a queen in Victoria Regina, a madwoman as Hamlet's Ophelia. Her secret is not true versatility-there is never any question that behind the makeup it is Julie Harris. Audiences flock to her performances precisely because she can mimic no one but herself; she simply takes on each challenging role and wraps it around...
...Charles Playhouse has produced an adaptation of The Madwoman of Chaillot by Jean Giraudoux that is remarkable for both its lightness and its sensitivity. It never bogs down in convoluted intellectual satire, as can easily happen when a less skillful company tackles Giraudoux; yet it does sacrifice ideas for either liveliness or wistfulness. Idea, or more specifically, idealism, is not buried. Its threads are carefully woven together in the first act and triumphantly knotted in the second. Evil falls victim to its own greed, love blooms again, and innocence reawakens...
...white knight, the matchmaker, and the childlike philosopher, is Countess Aurelie, Ghailot's elderly madwoman. While sitting at a Parisian cafe, Aurelie overhears a company president, a baron, and a prospector discussing plans to tap the seas of oil that, they are sure, lie under Paris's streets. The Countess is at first natively ignorant of the uses of oil, but when she learns of the industrialists' evil lust for power, and is told how oil can give them that power, she crushes them, madly. She tries them, in absentia, condemns them, and executes them by luring all the advocates...
Dorothy Pattern, the madwoman, plays her madness in the first act as though everyone else were crazy. She is a calm, inquisitive, if somewhat wacky, innocent here. But she rises with power and determination in the second act to lead her good allies to victory over the forces of darkness...
...defense and the maintenance-of law and order "in the last resort," i.e., against the European terrorists of the S.A.O., who have already decreed Fouchet's death. A strapping, six-foot athlete with a cannonball serve in tennis and a fondness for quoting the plays of Jean (The Madwoman of Chaillot) Giraudoux, Fouchet has a reputation for plain speaking and personal honesty. He escaped when France fell, served as a Free French paratrooper. He has been a dedicated Gaullist ever since, worked for Le Grand Charles as propagandist, diplomat, watchdog in the National Assembly, and for the past eight...