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...Limb, describing a gent she once had an affair with. Her enigmatic references to Gerry have kicked off, in the land of Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple, a full-blown, real-life mystery. Labor Leader Michael Foot, 69. denied any role in the affair. So did David Owen, 44, Tony Benn, 58, and Peter Shore, 59, who last week all raised their pinkies in emphatic, if somewhat wistful, denial of ever having had anything to do with MacLaine. Then she allowed that perhaps she did some Gerrymandering of the clues to conceal her ex-lover's identity. So still...
Many delegates questioned the selection of Owen Bieber, 53, to succeed Fraser as president. Bieber, a relative unknown, who had been director of the U.A.W. General Motors department, was nominated by the union's international executive board last November. "Bieber's an honest, hardworking, committed person," said one official. "The question is, has he got the qualities to lead the union enthusiastically? When he was in charge at General Motors, his first bargaining session ended up in concessions." Nonetheless, the convention unanimously elected the 6-ft. 5-in. Bieber...
...Footfalls, May (Karen Macdonald) calls her mother (Marianne Owen) back from the dead. Clad in flowing scarves and a long skirt, May reminisces about life before her mother's death. In the second part of this three-part development, the Voice (of May's mother) speaks for itself, and for the finale, May refutes her mother's speech. May, who later becomes Amy in a word-game switch typical of Beckett, seems to be attempting to put her mother, finally, to rest...
...play with very little action, Macdonald and Owen use voice inflection and, in Macdonald's case, restrained movement to dramatize the poem as much as possible. Nevertheless, the success of the performance seems to rest entirely on Beckett and the emotions he evokes from the audience. The play ends abruptly with the question "will you never have done revolving it in your poor mind?" Is the exorcism complete? Has anything been accomplished? Perhaps, but the audience will never know for sure...
Rockaby is a beautifully written monologue whose excruciatingly bitter message becomes very hard to endure even in such a short performance. Owen rocks herself to death, coordinating her rocking with the rhthym of her repetitive, sing-song phrases. "In the end, the day came, time she stopped going to and fro, high and low..." As she rocks more and more violently, and finally falls over, the repetition becomes unbearable. Yet the play also has a peaceful quality which, when juxtaposed against the underlying suicidal throbbing, stimulates the imagination. Although the director provides little in the form of lighting or props...