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...love-worn maid that listens while she gloats...
That last superlative should be toned down a bit with the reminder that, whatever Miss Reardon is or pretends to be, it is not serious theater. Paul Zwindel sidestepped the lachrymose aspects of the old maid's condition, and he placed a buoyant comic balloon in the middle of this short play (presented in an hour and a half with no intermission). The arrival of Ceil for a hostile dinner with Catherine and Anna sets loose a welter of tensions and animosities. Anna, you see, has "flipped," committed a sexual act, undefined but traumatic, with an adolescent hoodlum...
...intelligent mixture of both. Black Olympia is an example. It is one of Rivers' retakes: a version of Manet's famous painting in the Jeu-de-Paume with a black servant girl offering flowers to a white mistress. But Rivers made two images, one with the black maid and the white girl, the second with the roles switched. The political point about racism and master-servant relationships is concisely made. It stems from a seminar Rivers had in Portland, Ore., several years ago, when black art students bombarded him with such questions as: "How would you like...
...Anglo-Saxon Zorba, and Helen Gallagher, the girl who plays his wife. As she acts and sings ("Where-Has-My-Hubby-Gone" Blues), a smolderingly authentic Fitzgerald heroine comes alive on the stage. A special medal should be struck for Patsy Kelly as a comic howitzer of a maid with hilarious delayed-fuse timing...
...Harvard meter maid fell and seriously injured her back yesterday on the icy sidewalk on Copperwaithe St. outside Leverett House...