Word: melodrama
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...Drunkard. Musical melodrama at the Cabaret Down Under, Charles Playhouse, 74 Warrenton St. in Boston. Performances Tuesday through Thursday at 8:15 p.m., Friday and Saturday at 7:30 and 10 p.m., Sunday at 8:15 p.m. Tickets...
...LIFE FOR THE world's future," the devil's disciple cried from the gallows. It is a gesture of self-conscious heroism that would have done Nathan Hale proud, but in George Bernard Shaw's world of comic melodrama, it remains only a gesture. In The Devil's Disciple, Richard Dudgeon cannot die, for his life, as a newly-created American saint, and the world's future, symbolized by the birth of the United States, depend on each other...
...bicentennial is a spectacle that begs our involvement, Shaw cunningly obliges us to distance ourselves from the illusion he presents. At one point, after Swindon, in the face of disastrous war news, declares his faith in his countrymen's devotion. Burgoyne cuttingly asks him if he's writing a melodrama. With all this self-consciousness, it's not too surprising that The Devil's Disciple never quite compels our belief. But neither does it matter, since the Summer School Repertory Theater, inaugurating its season with polish and style, so winningly compels our laughter...
...School Repertory Theater is starting its three-show season with its obligatory bicentennial tribute--George Bernard Shaw's The Devil's Disciple, and the Loeb Drama Center is already decked out in red, white and blue bunting to publicize the July 4 (when else?) opening of this British comic melodrama about the American Revolution...
...MASH, but it has found a way to get into the underbelly of a city, to survey the twilight territory where tragedy and comedy trip over each other and make an unsightly mess. What might have been a pitch-black comedy is a movie loaded down with cheapjack melodrama and sleazy yocks...