Word: paines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LUTHER. Playwright John Osborne's Luther is a fiercely burning torch-dampened by tormenting disagreement with his church, threatened by the double dangers of self-doubt and physical pain, but shedding the guiding light of the Reformation...
...WHITE AMERICA. The pain, the humor, the anger and the pride of the U.S. Negro's history spring to pulsing life in this collection of dramatizations drawn from newspapers, journals and letters...
This dying light is marvelously mirrored in the smoky anguish of Alec Guinness' eyes, and it gives him the look of a man ravaged by the pain of being and the dread of not being. Perfectly miming every state of alcoholic disequilibrium, Guinness does a dance of death at ever-varying tempos. It can be antic, as when he pats the bottom of an Old Howard burlesque stripper in Boston, and reminds her that he will be reading his poems at Radcliffe. It can be a gallant agony of slow motion, as he disciplines drunken legs to march...
...created his macabre world from his own imagination. At the center of the play, literally and figuratively, is his recital of how he came to be where he is and how, too rich in imagination, he imprisoned with him the other characters. He cries helplessly and regularly for his "pain-killer," just as his father cries for pap and Clov ponders escape. And at the end the stage is littered with superfluous symbols and phrases that express from all angles the meanness of a man without love and without courage...
...WHITE AMERICA. The pain, the humor, the anger and the pride of the U.S. Negro's history spring to pulsing life in this collection of dramatizations drawn from newspapers, journals and letters...