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Once again Central American states find themselves either wrestling with or recovering from the most enduring features of their history poverty and despotism. And once again the United States demonstrates its seemingly incurable myopia as it props up unpopular regimes and points to military solutions for recurring economic problems.
In this production. Warner lets his imagination go wild. He uses dozens of bizarre, totally unexpected props to complement his players' fine interpretation of the lines--from the very first scene, with leaping figures dancing to calypso music to the last, in which the characters wear BVD's and very...
In Warner's version, occult occurrences are almost taken for granted--they appear in almost every scene. But the significance of these scenes is cheapened by Warner's reliance on flashy costumes, anachronistic props, and the original music by Peter Melnick. These external ornaments overshadow the plot, and the three...
Gerald Fox as Camillo gives the play's most memorable performance because he changes accents as often as others change props. His identities range from his own proper English accent to a puted French-German cadence. Fox moves around the stage, playing off the other character's syncracies.
Such a performance, with all its sparkle, cloaks a lack of substance and mars several sections of the play. The props, in the end, are nothing more than distracting ornaments, prompting the audience to grow extremely restless by the end of each 90-minute act. Had Warner held himself back...