Word: melodramas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...introspective incident that became a full-blown diplomatic melodrama began quietly enough on May 17, when the Trudeau government received a blunt note from a capital that was not even represented at the Games: Peking. The mainland Chinese, who had stalked out of the International Olympic Committee in 1958 over the issue of Taiwan's representation, warned the Canadians that allowing the Taiwanese to attend the Olympics under their chosen name, the Republic of China, would violate the terms of Canada's recognition of Peking. (In 1970, Canada recognized the People's Republic, whereupon Taiwan severed ties...
...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...
...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...