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INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE, by John Osborne, is one man's violent outburst at how he has marred his life and how life has mauled him. Poisoned arrows of wit and vituperation fill the air, and Nicol Williamson is an actor-archer with deadly...
INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE. Middle age, joyless loves and his own irredeemable mediocrity have given John Osborne's anti-hero a screaming case of psychic jitters. Yet the play is armed with irascible wit, and Nicol Williamson's whiplash acting raises laughs as well as welts...
INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE. Middle age, joyless loves, and his own irredeemable mediocrity have given John Osborne's anti-hero a screaming case of psychic jitters. Yet the play is armed with irascible wit, and Nicol Williamson's whiplash acting raises laughs as well as welts...
...cuts up his victim "with a tongue you could shave with." He fires people left and right. Sometimes he even throws things. Sometimes people throw things back. Last December, when Merrick flew off the handle and fired Director Tony Page for not making cuts in Inadmissible Evidence, Actor Nicol Williamson threw a glass of beer and a sudsy right at Merrick's head and sent him staggering into a backstage trash barrel. It is on such occasions, of course, that Merrick's critics up periscope and fire all tubes. He has been called "Typhoid David" and "Captain Hook...
INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE. Sunk in mediocrity, trapped in middle life, self-accusing and self-condemned, John Osborne's anti-hero spews out a caustically funny anathema on his world and his fate. In the lead, Nicol Williamson is scaldingly good...