Word: mocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BAGS FULL, by Jerome Chodorov. Written in mock-Edwardian, directed like a six-day bike race, this adapted French farce is irresistibly droll, thanks chiefly to that dour master of ludicrous mayhem, Paul Ford...
...BAGS FULL, by Jerome Chodorov. Writ ten in mock-Edwardian, directed like a six-day bike race, this adapted French farce is irresistibly droll, thanks chiefly to that dour master of ludicrous mayhem, Paul Ford...
...Arbor. Last year Shapiro lured 2,500 U.S. lawyers through a blinding blizzard to Michigan's Annual Advocacy Institute. This year 3,500 lawyers showed up from 49 states, Canada and Mexico. For two days in Ann Arbor, they positively drooled as leading judges presided over mock personal-injury trials and master cross-examiners demolished hapless witnesses...
...might expect from the play's poverty of invention, the strongest scenes are the comedy episodes for which King has been able to develop his own non-Shakespearean business. The mock capture and interrogation of Parolles has, with the aid of a few concealing branches become almost a Marx Brothers' episode--fast, illogical, and packed with visual gags...
...dialogue is archly mock-Edwardian; the pace, trampolin-bouncy. The sprung rhythms prove complementary, and the cast handle the outlandish fool ery like seasoned farceurs. The show does have its slack and silly moments, but never when Paul Ford is dead center, deadpan and dead earnest, the dourest living master of comic mayhem...