Word: maids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...things he does is meet Maggie Smith, in the form of a character named Patty Terwilliger. Patty, like Marcus, is one of those people success and glamour have passed by. She can't keep a job (she loses a position as a meter maid because she doesn't have the heart to give a ticket); she attracts wretched men; and, when she cooks dinner for a gentlemen caller, the meal burns on the stove...
...Allen, on the other hand, is delightful as the maid Toinette who brings about the final happy conclusion. In front of Argan's weakness, her insouciance and her defiance of the father's pomposity are refreshing. Over and over Argan calls her "a slut." In essence she is, and an enchanting...
...Suddenly, in a huggermugger of stumbling hurry and shouted directions, a family spills out of a stairwell, dropping luggage and household possessions all over the room, and collapsing in relief. Obviously a close thing, whatever it was. The lights come up as they freeze - father, mother, daughter and Negro maid-while into the tawdry room and out through the theater comes a dreadful ululation of voices...
...very heavily on the full tone range of his actor's voices, their bodies--especially arm gesturing--and the expanse of the stage. A fine example comes in one of the very first scenes when Orgon, the master of the house, returns from a business trip and asks the maid, Dorine, what has happened during his absence. She answers that his wife has been sick, indeed had to be bled. But Orgon is interested only in hearing about Tartuffe, the religious man he has gathered into his home. There is a wonderful, almost song-like exchange between...
Orgon's daughter Marianne and her fiancee Valere, the play's romantic young couple, almost lose each other in a bull-headed argument. Finally it is the common-sensical maid, Dorine, who brings them back together...