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...moved to Connecticut "to get away from Negroes." His aspirations are predictable: to get a promotion, make more money, get laid, and raise children to want these same things. Slocum--whose name suggests male menopause--has no sense of identity; he doesn't know precisely what he wants. Yet Rorschach tests show that his ability to see the whole picture will certainly lead to success. He is a man living on the brink of the abyss; he displays not only schizophrenic symptoms, but quadrophonic possibilities...
...type is what might be called the Rorschach-test play, a Harold Pinter specialty. The ambiguity of his plots and the opacity of his characters' motivations leave the playgoer with the task of figuring out what the play means. In the process, each member of the audience reveals himself to himself. For playgoers who relish self-analysis and puzzle solving, the genre is extremely stimulating; others may find it both irritating and baffling...
Green Julia is a Rorschach-test play and an awfully good one. It is the first full-length drama by Britain's Paul Ableman, 45, who has previously written three novels and some 50 abstract and surrealist playlets. Like most plays of this sort, Green Julia is low on action and high on intensity of situation. The only characters that the audience sees are Robert Lacey, a young plant physiologist, and Jacob Perew, a young economist. For some time, Perew (John Pleshette) and Lacey (Fred Grandy) have shared a flat in an English university town. They also share...
...take to heart. ("Your book isn't about seagulls at all. It's about how a painter must find his own form whether the public will buy it or not.") Says Science Fiction Writer Ray Bradbury, a great friend and fan of Bach's: "Jonathan, is a great Rorschach test. You read your own mystical principles into it." Rorschach test or not, Jonathan owes something to science fiction (thought movement, for example). It is also a mélange of contradictory religious messages. One is Hinduism (the goal of life is absolute perfection). Yet Jonathan emphasizes the self over all else...
...Rorschach, people reveal their emotional conflicts by describing what they think they see in indeterminate shapes. Similarly, critics of the Pioneer 10 drawing saw considerably more than Drake and Sagan intended to convey, thus suggesting something about their own inner preoccupations...