Word: perlimpin
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...Saroyan failure matters scarcely at all, however, because the final piece, Garcia Lorca's The Love of Don Perlimpin for Belisa in the Garden, is nearly perfect. It is utterly compact; the depth and the texture of the fantasy are established in the first moment by a lute, by Joseph Ingelfinger's clever valentine set, and by the action of the two sprites who manipulate players and audience. There is no trace of strain in Lorca's imaginative forays; he evokes intense and genuine emotion without fighting against the unreal setting of the theatre. But because the play recognizes...
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