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...country music spread to the northeast and the west coast, it showed an even greater propensity for being co-opted than rock music had. By now, the vast majority of country and western music has gone Glen Campbell--commercial pop with a reference to ol' Ma and Pa thrown in. Merle Haggard is virtually alone in holding on to the original forms...
...Ma-Gico even seems capable of controlling the audience. "Watch the mirrors," she instructs them, in a reference to the mylar-coated reflecting panels which encircle the stage. "Every eye is a mirror," she adds mysteriously, and all of the actors immediately freeze, staring intently at the audience for what was obviously an uncomfortably long time for many of the patrons. The unusual interlude greatly increased the audience's need for the play; their relief was evident when movement began on the stage as suddenly as it had ceased...
...until the grand finale that the Doctor partakes of the violence she had only been directing up to that point. In a kind of calculated loss of self-control, Ma-Gico wholeheartedly murders an old blind king who has just survived three similar murder attemps by lesser characters. Deriving overwhelming pleasure from the act, Ma-Gico can do nothing but end the play which has consisted, in effect, of a comic parade of hangings, murders, elongated phalluses, and other instruments of horror controlled by Ma-Gico...
...Magic Show of Dr. Ma-Gico," however, comes not from profound statements about the human condition which it seems every play strives to embody but from the success of a tightly disciplined, clearly professional group of actors coordinating a spectacular production...
...Magic Show of Dr. Ma-Gico," although lacking in traditional theatrical continuity, works as a vehicle for some remarkable performances. From the actors' if not from the playwright's point of view, it is certainly a success...