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Short, apple-round and learnedly garrulous, Ambrose ambles through his adventures preceded by a pillar of chaos. While bodies are felled and dark deeds are done all about him, the philosophy don lets Bach's Magnificat sing through his mind, ruminates about Hegel, and numbs his listeners with a flow of quotes from the Bible, Shakespeare, major poets and minor limericists. On the track of a murderer, Ambrose, like an unleashed puppy, will spot a new scent-a hitherto unexplored connection between the Book of Kings and the lost Amazonian city of Pirahuanaco...
This summer Rab is gently stirring a third round of Ambrose...
...Service operatives around the President. But the security problem managed to generate a first-class flap when an Ottawa cab driver reported that two men, one of them carrying what could have been a rifle case, had left his cab near the golf course where Ike was playing a round with three companions. Notified of the cab driver's suspicions, Ike calmly finished his round (score: 89) while a detail of Mounties beat the surrounding bushes in a vain search for the suspicious strangers...
...supporting characters in the play are pretty much two-dimensional types, but the members of the cast round them out as much as possible. Betty Bartley is the whiny-voiced dumb blonde who dresses flamboyantly and is glad to give herself to a portly, cigar-smoking gentleman of means (Jonathan Morris); she has the funniest lines in the show, and some of them are really a howl...
...fight with a dragon, the release of a captive, the awakening of a sleeping beauty. And in its depths the narrative circles down through an abyss of symbols to the first and final circle of reality in which heaven and hell, good and evil, life and death go round together blindly in the mystery of the eternal return...