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PANTAGLEIZE is the creation of Belgian Playwright Michel de Ghelderode and a "lunar individual" to whom a funny thing happens on the way to his destiny. In a visually impressive production by the APA repertory company, Ellis Rabb plays the innocent who just happens to be there when a revolution is looking for a leader...
PANTAGLEIZE. The APA Repertory Company mounts a stylistically rich production of the Belgian playwright Michel de Ghelderode's grotesque historical farce. From the cornucopia of his imagination comes spilling forth Pantagleize (Ellis Rabb), a Chaplinesque figure who, equipped with only an umbrella, a silly expression and an innocent greeting, manages to start a revolution...
Pantagleize is a fool in Christ, one of nature's eternal innocents. Played with gently preoccupied detachment by Ellis Rabb, an elongated matchstick of a man, Pantagleize casually scratches himself against the world and sets it flaming. It all happens quite inadvertently. He wakes up on his 40th birthday and wonders what his destiny is, or if his destiny is to have no destiny. "What a lovely day," he says, and his destiny begins. The words turn out to be the secret code for starting a revolution...
Married. Rosemary Harris, 40, British actress whose equal knack for Shakespeare, Shaw and Sheridan blossomed in New York's APA repertory company under the direction of Ellis Rabb, her first husband (her ties with APA and Rabb both ended in divorce last spring); and John Ehle, 41, native North Carolina author (The Free Man); in Penland...
Having refused to stop selling Giumarra grapes, Rabb and associates have not been content to rest on their laurels. Signs have been placed on the grape stands of "Stop and Shop": "This brand of grapes is not one of those being picketed." Actually, according to the UFWOC organizers, they are the brand of firms which agreed to market Giumarra grapes. Also, says Moonves, the company has made a behind-the-scenes attempt to keep publicity about the grape strike and picketing out of the local papers...