Word: mounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mercy's Sake. "I enjoy seeing the fellows again," beamed Terry, who walked out to the mound, threw 70 pitches and walked off with his fourth victory of the year, a 4-0 shutout. Only three Yankees got to first base, and the game mercifully lasted just 1 hr. 40 min. -shortest of the season. "I wanted to win," explained Terry afterward, "but I wanted to make sure I didn't rub it in." If he didn't, the ninth-place Washington Senators did: they promptly took two out of three from the Yankees. Manager Johnny Keane...
Blau admits that Happy Days, with its two characters and mound of earth, is a difficult and ambitious play, more ambitious than large productions which pretend to encompass a "great event." For Beckett and Blau wish to do nothing less than tell the truth about the human condition, as they see it, and to tell it obliquely, comically, and ironically-which is perhaps the only way it can be told. They also wish to close the gaps between the actors and the play and between the audience and the dramatic production. In the few places where they fail, the audience...
...power of Happy Days lies in its tremendous economy and concentration. Society is almost gone, having been reduced to Winnie, who is slowly sinking into a mound of earth, and her husband Willie, who is rarely seen or beard. Time has entirely disappeared; the sun shines brutally and endlessly, and silence is punctuated only by the shattering ringing of an electric bell...
...major sources of Winnie's "happiness" are Willie and her "story." It is Willie who above all rescues her from the "wilderness of herself," who blows his nose, occasionally answers her questions, and finally, with a supreme effort, tries to crawl up Winnie's mound. There are long periods of time, however, when Willie does not answer, and Winnie must rely on her "story" of frightened childhood and traumatic sexual experiences, on fuzzy memories and garbled quotations to create the illusion that she is not alone...
...irony, absurdity, and high courage, director Richard Blau fashioned a very intelligent and well-integrated production. Technical mishaps occur, but the relationship of the actors to each other and to their objects is never sloppy or thoughtless. The set, by Joe Inglefinger, is a minor masterpiece of earth mound, rolling desert, and twilight sky (all accomplished within the technical limitations of the Adams House Dining Hall). Seated inside the mound, Diana Allen Delivers Winnie's two hour near-monologue of madness with a dazzling range of style-dirty-old man, guilty-little-girl, calm, logical lunatic. With converse skill, Armand...