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Though the subject might better belong to the late show or daytime TV, author Liz Coe has written a play that is clever, fast-moving and never tedious. Director Emily Mann has done some nice things too. Her opening is particularly striking, with Casey a backstage silhouette pacing anxiously before she has to come out on stage and do her routine. Mann has skillfully used John Caruso's recorded music to raise the pitch of melodramatic tension during the blackouts. And on the most part the cast was fine...
...manager takes off in search of new talent, but Casey is dramatically stillborn from her first scenes. There's a lot of staring out of an imaginary window with significant facial expressions but Casey does best with her clever humor and is rarely credible as a serious character. Mann has tried to conceal this with fancy, and attention-absorbing, footwork. But with fourteen scenes, her steps rapidly grow familiar. The formula is for a surprise or hanging suspense finale in every episode. This would be fine if it ever relented, but finally predictability pushes The Bull over the edge...
...perhaps the most important thing that she did at the Loeb was early in her freshman year when she met Emily Mann, who directs The Bull Only Gets the Matador Once in a Lifetime. "We were standing in the lobby and started talking," remembers Coe, "and Emily said 'I love No Exit; I directed No Exit twice,' and I said 'I hate No Exit' and so that's how we became friends." A classic meeting of minds, if ever there was one, followed by collaboration in Look Back in Anger, when Mann acted and Coe directed. And Emily Mann...
Both Coe and Mann are pleased with the growing recognition of Radcliffe dramatic talent which large-scale production of The Bull Only Gets the Matador Once in a Lifetime represents, but also feel what Mann symbolizes as, "I don't want to be thought of as a directress; I am a director." Both are quietly confident of script and cast, and Casey Cowen takes the stage tonight for the first time, with figurative sword and cape...
...Bull Gets the Matador Once in a Lifetime, written by Liz Coe '73 and directed by Emily Mann '74. Our own William Alfred calls it "a tart, knowing tragi-comedy, vividly conceived and tellingly written." At Agassiz, 8:30 Thurs., Fri., Sat. this weekend and next. Premiere tonight. Call 495-8663 for tickets...