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...Israeli one-act plays...
...groundlings" referred to the unruly rabble who crowded into the front pit of the Globe Theater. In Groundlings, author Seth Harrington '00 accuses their modern-day equivalents of living vicariously and irresponsibly through the actors' lives. It's a transgression that must be punished: over the course of this one-act play, Shakespeare's Hamlet finally receives the opportunity to get revenge upon its audience...
...accuses him of complicity in the actors' murders: by doing nothing to prevent the players' deaths, she argues, Roulleau is no less culpable than a bystander who doesn't warn an oblivious pedestrian in the path of a train. This premise sets Groundlings rolling, and the rest of the one-act play is devoted to Roulleau's Kafka-esque trial. The ensuing action alternates between the troupe's re-enactment of Hamlet's murders, which the prosecution displays in the form of a plaintiff's exhibit, and Roulleau's desperate defense...
Granger was the author of "Eminent Domain," "The Compete Works of Studs Edsel," and many other one-act plays...
...serious disappointment of the show was its length: the four skits add up to barely an hour's worth of entertainment. The original All in the Timing consisted of six one-act comedies. McCarter and Stein showed that they could transfer Ives's pointed and poetic wit to the stage. But they should have attempted to present more skits from the collection. Fortunately, the four skits they chose provided a well-acted and entertaining exercise for the mind...