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...original 24 tales are used-two in each act. But Chaucer loses remarkably little from the abridgement. First comes the Miller's Tale of Nicholas, the Oxford stud, Absolon, the clerk, and their rivalry for sexy Alison. Then comes the Reeve's account of the hot pillow goings-on in the Miller's family. The show's multiple bed hoppings are cleverly managed by representing the beds with vertically hung sheets and blankets, behind which the actors slip...
...Democratic Party's "National Death Convention," which will be running concurrently. The Yippies aim to set up a lakefront tent village in Grant Park, where they can groove on folk songs, rock bands, "guerrilla" theater, body painting and meditation. Through the park they will bear on a blue pillow their very own presidential candidate: Lyndon Pigasus Pig, a ten-week-old black and white porker now afattening at the Hog Farm, a hippie commune in Southern California. Other possibilities being considered: a lie-in at Chicago's O'Hare Field to prevent Democratic delegates from landing...
After an unsuccessful attempt to smother the flames with a pillow, Grainger kicked the can of fluid into the fireplace and rang the alarm. "I expected the can to explode with a sort of napalm effect," he said...
...party. And Miss Waroff's blocking did nothing to vary the continual re-introduction of a familiar joke. In a scene between Myrrhine, who is upholding chastity regulations, and Kinesias, her husband, the lady breaks off caresses and runs away for little extras--a bed, a coverlet, a pillow, perfume--that she insists they have before lying down. Each new errand should bring a laugh--except that Carla Barringer (Myrrhine) exits the same way each time...
Still, in important ways the play is a heap of Dickensian Smallweeds, each spasmodically throwing his particular pillow. That the Loeb production of Toys in the Attic does not become a series of twitches is due to Leland Moss's direction and superb acting by Nancy Cox as Anna Berniers and Shelia Russell as her sister...