Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cast in, say, the basement of Adams House. Director Nestor Davidson makes good use of the large stage, both visually and spatially. The set seems accurate in its frugality, focusing attention on the players and not the stage--though Davidson does sneak in some impressive special effects. In one scene, for example, alleged heretics are literally noosed onstage while other characters examine the famed erections of the hanged...
...ability to remain serious in the face of completely preposterous situations heightens the comic sense of the play. Particularly in the three-way confrontation scene between Judith, her husband David and Myra (Simon's girlfriend), Simpson's attitude of mock indignation is hilarious...
Andrew J. Hill is also wonderful as Simon Bliss. Hill is truly comic in the opening scene as he mixes an air of half-hearted interest with one of total indifference. His deadpan delivery adds to the humor of the play...
...novelist John Gardner once wrote a version of Beowulf that was told from Grendel's point of view. There is a scene in which a wandering bard arrives among the drunken cretins and begins to sing beautiful songs to them about what they have accomplished that day in battle. Atrocity becomes glory, bloodletting becomes heroic. It is a shrewd point about mythmaking, and perhaps about the making of the myth of Camelot...
...Nixon might have dropped out of the same sky to try to win. The band, a little forlorn in the night, is drums, electronic keyboard piano and electric guitar, and it sounds like a Milwaukee roadhouse on a Saturday night. It plays Happy Days Are Here Again. The scene is fervent and lonely...