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Happily, the force of Wheeler's refreshing interpretation and Karlen's convincing performance is sustained by a mature troupe of supporting players. Barbara Colby is uncannily believable as Caligula's almost worn out but vapidly feminine mistress, and Jerome Raphel appears as strong, conscious and submissive as one could hope Caligula's ex-slave bodyguard to be. Only Joseph Hindy, who plays Caligula's naive, sensitive and ultimately rejected friend, Scipio, seems out of place on this fine stage. His movements are stiff, he slouches, and he swallows too many lines...
...history is true or false. Librettist Sidney Michaels credits Franklin's successful pursuit of French funds and official recognition to a species of boudoir statesmanship. Despite his celebrated gynecophilia, rare Ben is, after all, 70 years old in 1776, and his torpid romancing of Louis XVI's mistress (Ulla Sallert) has to consist mostly of gallant guff and one balloon ascension...
...British wine merchant, Martin Lynch-Gibbon, comes home from his mistress, Georgie, one late afternoon to be told by his wife that she wants a divorce. Antonia knows nothing of Georgie, but she has fallen in love with her American psychoanalyst, Palmer Anderson. Far from abandoning Martin, Antonia and Palmer demand his love, and they are quite shattered to learn of his mistress. One of the more richly comic scenes in the play is that of Martin apologizing to Antonia and Palmer for Georgie...
...sleeping around gets them is into bed. Breaking all the rules merely traps them in the bondage of incessant repetition. This is inherent in their own natures. Martin, for example, is submissive to his wife, who is an older woman, a child-to-parent relationship, and protective to his mistress, who is about 20 years younger, a father-to-daughter relationship. At play's end he is repeating his submissive role to an even more aggressive personality, Honor Klein...
...Tarde Tourmalina" is a genuinely enjoyable story. The ending is a bit abrupt--an apparent icebox devours the narrator--and there isn't exactly a plot, but several incidents and patches of conversation are quite amusing. Two of the characters--a handsome, passionless perfectionist and his beautiful, passionless mistress--seem rather familiar, but the other two are engaging. The writing is generally vigorous, at times excellent...