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...judge, Cust, steers suspicion toward Vanan, the aging chief of the court. Vanan is innocent; yet he is shattered and acts guilty. As the investigation goes on, Cust analyzes the inner torment and Luciferian guile of the truly guilty party, and does it with such brilliant intuitiveness that the playgoer realizes that it must be Cust...
...below room temperature. But she can't wash that ring-finger man right out of her hair, not just yet. Hubby has to burn a theater to a crisp and drunkenly clout his little daughter before his charm begins to evade Mary as thoroughly as it has the playgoer...
...Private Ear and The Public Eye, by Peter Shaffer. Light entertainment is a promise the theater is quick to make and slow to honor. In these two one-acters, the promise is entrancingly kept. They defy the laws of mental gravity and lift a playgoer out of his world only to see it better, just as a dream is sometimes truer than a thought...
...marriage a game--to be played with several players. Contemporary society takes a somewhat different view of divorce: it is neither shocked nor girlishly intrigued; it accepts it along with other unpleasant aspects of life. Scrampled Couples, therefore, is not a game with great comical appeal to the modern playgoer. The Idea is a bit stale...
Poor Percy is the emotional fulcrum of the play, and probably says more to an English than to an American playgoer. Britain's Dyer is not an angry playwright, but he shares the current British theatrical fervor for discovering the lower classes. This social ferment is a quarter of a century out of phase with the U.S. experience of the Depression that animated the old Group Theater's concept of the hero as ultra common man. The sad truth is that the Percys of the world are the small beer of the drama, and in two hours they...