Word: richilieu
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...season, which will soon end with a Dario Fo farce, has been one long excursion into the Heart of Snideness. With the possible exception of Sweettable at the Richilieu, every play this season has been dripping with satire, burlesque and irony. And perhaps this is all that we can ask out of modern theater...
Sweettable at the Richilieu...
SWEETTABLE AT THE RICHILIEU is the second of three new American plays being mounted this season by the American Repertory Theater. The results do not bode well for the future of American play wrighting...
...share her blanket with the younger woman. "But why won't you share? It's not fair," Jeanine whines, symbolizing the struggle of Old Europe vs. New Europe in pathetic clarity. Of course, Jeanine wins the blanket, and the last good room at their destination, the old-fashioned Richilieu...
Sadow, though, by no means has a pessimistic view of dissipated youth. Quivering with pride on the eve of yet another pitched battle between Harvard and Yale he offers this advice to tomorrow's contestants: "'In the bright lexicon of youth,' said Richilieu, `there is no such thing as fail.' I hope the Harvard varsity and freshmen remember that on Saturday...
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