Word: ritually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MOMENT OF TRUTH. A rigorous but eloquent ritual drama about the short, tragic life of a great bullfighter, played by Spanish Matador Miguel Mateo...
...night before, by local belief, demons of death stalked the village of Sotouboua (pop. 500) in northern Togo. Streets were deserted, and only the throb of a tom-tom broke the still ness. Next day the men of the village sallied forth to perform the ritual that is supposed to frighten demons away. Some wore fluttery feather headdresses and grotesque carved masks; others chewed the bark of a native bush until the drool stained their chins a deep orange color. Several of them gripped snakes and rats between their teeth...
...Maitland's tormented hallucination, and the play's device, that he is in a spectral dock on trial on a self-accusing charge-that his life has become an obscenity. The inner motion of this drama is the ritual of exorcism; Maitland wants to banish the voracious demons of his mind and conscience. But his witnesses are all mirror images of his decay, shadowy chroniclers of loss, rejection, betrayal and defeat. His upbraided, long-suffering clerks are walking legal briefs drawn up against Maitland's corrosive contempt for his work. His wife is Maitland's petition...
...MOMENT OF TRUTH. A rigorous but eloquent ritual drama about the short tragic life of a great bullfighter, perceptively played by Spanish Matador Miguel Mateo...
Jamie Rosenthal, as Rosie, was consistently entertaining. I was especially impressed by her facial expression during Randall's mock trial of Glas. While the other two were going through a grotesque ritual, I found myself watching Rosie's bewilderment...