Word: quinton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Second Avenue Theater to watch excerpts from his ebullient farces and to pay tribute to the artist whom Playwright William M. Hoffman called "the funniest man in America." Madeline Kahn recalled her college days with Ludlam. Joseph Papp and Geraldine Fitzgerald spoke of his prodigious energy. Finally, Everett Quinton -- Ludlam's colleague and for years his lover -- walked onstage to a standing ovation. Throughout the evening he had manfully cavorted through such roles as Flosshilde in Der Ring Gott Farblonjet, Alice in Conquest of the Universe or When Queens Collide and Lamia the Leopard Woman in Bluebeard. He waited...
...MYSTERY OF IRMA VEP. This perfect travesty raids Jane Eyre, Poe and mummy movies. Everett Quinton and Playwright-Director Charles Ludlam perform all eight roles, some in drag, some simultaneously, with manic precision...
...Kate Quinton is 80, and has lived most of her life as a sturdy, hard working, house-proud member of the lower middle class in Brooklyn. Crippled by arthritis and suffering from several other ailments, she is about to be packed off to a nursing home, a dread prison from which 75% of those who enter never emerge. Kate Quinton's Days, first published in The New Yorker, is the true story of the efforts, made largely by Claire, her partially disabled daughter, and some dedicated social workers, to help Kate come home. The return could not have occurred...
...Ludlam moves the melodrama with ferocious precision; this is high-voltage comedy, not low camp. But it is as an actor that this supernally gifted jacka-napes-of-all-trades shines brightest. All eight roles here (four male, four female) are played by Ludlam and his co-star Everett Quinton, with lightning-quick costume changes and split-personality voice throwing. Quinton as the maid skulks off stage right and 20 seconds later appears at the French doors as Lord Edgar. At the climax, Ludlam's Nicodemus struggles with Ludlam's Lady Enid-a true vaudeville tour de farce...
...tragedy rolls on and is visited upon the daughter Imelda. Time accelerates, the narrative sections become more brief and informational, and there is only one resolution--a final tranquility--in the arrangement of Quinton bones at Kilneagh--"no matter how death came." And it is a sad picture...