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Superficial Irritant. A few militant Negroes resent any attempt to alter their speech habits. Negro Writer Le-Roi Jones asks: "What's wrong with our black tongue now?" Philadelphia N.A.A.C.P. Leader Cecil B. Moore argues that "my dialect never hurt me-and no one tries to change the Irish, Italians or French who have dialects." Author Langston Hughes backhandedly praises the "old shoe" approach as "bordering on the poetic...
...little too hectic. It's more Jarry's responsibility than Zimet's. Jarry was a Frenchman who lived in a garret with two owls and a stone phallus around the turn of the century. He took a schoolboy satire of a fat stupid professor and turned it into Ubu Roi. It's a forerunner of nearly everything: epic theatre, theatre of the absurd, Bullwinkle and the Filthy Speech Movement. You can't cram that much into a play without its getting overstuffed...
...like far ladies in sack races, you'll love Ubu Roi. Alfred Jarry's fat lady galumphs along riotously, but about two-thirds of the way to the finish line, with all that painting and sweat, she gets a little painful to watch...
These touches are funny, and when they work smoothly, add sparkle to the show. But they don't attack the real problem. They strengthen the sack, when they should ask the lady inside to reduce. Ubu Roi needs some ruthless cutting and directional pacing. The Quincy House Dining Room isn't big enough to take two and a half hours of shouting. Have the lady skip a meal and rest quietly for a minute, the she'll bounce over the finish line ahead of everybody...
...official action will be taken against the Quincy House production of Ubu Roi, scheduled for May 6-9, despite two anonymous letters charging that the play is "obscene and indecent...