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QUEEN MARGUERITE is the most complex character in Exit the King. As the play proceeds she must change from death's morbid apologist to a magnanimous prophet. But Marlene Nelson as Marguerite maintains a uniformly dour and malignant tenor, never clearly establishing what she feels or wants. Ionesco is vague on these points, but she should clarify the uncertainty. Her work in the final scene in the play, when she tells the king and the audience what it is to die, is the biggest let-down of the evening...
...Court justice and ideologue of Southern white supremacists during the '50s; after heart surgery; in Houston. Brady preached that slavery was "the greatest benefit one man ever conferred upon another," urged the abolition of public schools and called for a separate American state for blacks. He became the prophet, and his 1954 book, Black Monday, became the bible of the white Citizens Councils that waged bitter political warfare against the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 school desegregation ruling...
...them. In his quest for allies he ranges far and wide. He examines fellow Latin American artists like Pablo Neruda (whom he calls "a poetic continent") and the film maker Luis Bunuel (whom he compares to Goya). He looks to Marshall McLuhan, then looks away from him -as a "prophet," alas, only of Madison Avenue...
...Monstrous, painful, agonizing, a bottomless abyss of malice, deceit, fraud and greed," said Novelist Taylor Caldwell (Dear and Glorious Physician) of her 72 years on earth. She hoped there was no such thing as reincarnation, she told Occultologist Jess Steam (Edgar Cayce-The Sleeping Prophet), so she wouldn't have to go all through it again. Just to see if it hadn't happened once or twice before, though, they agreed to have her hypnotized. According to Stearn, who has just published a book about the phenomenon (The Search for a Soul), Miss Caldwell began recalling no less...
...southern Rhodesia, gracefully carries a fairly heavy load of earnest emotion. During a year of violent events that bring his childhood to an end, young François Joubert, whose Huguenot ancestors settled in Africa 300 years ago, encounters three men of extraordinary nobility: a Bushman-hunter, a prophet and healer, and a Matabele chief. Their influence moves him toward a rejection of European attitudes...