Word: methuselah
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...PRODUCTION of Back to Methuselah at the Loeb Ex tonight is quiet, lulling and wonderful. Its strength derives from an evenness of tone, a beautiful monotony that strokes music out of the language. Listening through its hour is like drawing out an ancient scroll covered with wondrous inscriptions--there's order to it, some rising and falling, but the shape and texture of the paper never change: it transfixes...
...consumed by greed and violence seems an odd notion for such a soggy fantasy to be advancing; that the solution to the problem is, forget it, fix it later, is not. What does it matter if the world blows up, after all, if we have the happy valley, Methuselah-like longevity, and Burt Bacharach and the Reader's Digest to teach us the better...
...most cruises, Neptune is king. On this voyage, Methuselah rules. The average age of the passengers is mid-60s, and when the handful of children and smattering of under-40s is out of sight-which is often-it seems even higher. Also, word leaked out that 31 would-be passengers, mostly elderly, died between the time they booked their cabins and the ship left its home port of Le Havre. (The vacancies were quickly filled.) As a result, the prevailing atmosphere is less glamorous than geratic...
...that is evolving along "the path to godhead," and if civilization is to advance or even survive, he must learn to live to a riper, wiser age. Over the next 300 centuries, he begins working his way back to Adam's 1,000 years, or at least to Methuselah...
Tuned to Pitch. Running for six hours over two evenings, Methuselah takes on life and force most often in its acting. Paul Curran and Harry Lomax gleefully caricature Lloyd George and Herbert Asquith as, respectively, fatuous and feckless. Charles Kay, made up to resemble Shaw, touchingly yet comically portrays one of the last of the 31st century's "short-livers"; Philip Locke and Jeanne Watts lend a glint of intellectual ecstasy to the bald, sexless ancients of the future. In such performances, the strands of Shaw's sometimes garrulous argument are tuned to a fine pitch, so that...