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...play does not force these comparisons too hard. It is perfectly possible to enjoy The Dresser simply as a backstage fable, rich in the full-tilt emotional exaggeration of plays and pictures that try to catch showfolk off guard, offstage. Or as a fairly acute study of the master-servant relationship. Or simply as an excuse to give two splendid actors (Tom Courtenay as the title figure, Albert Finney as Sir) a chance to strut their stuff...
Eric Arthur Blair was born in 1903 in India, where his father Richard worked as a civil servant for the British Empire. Not long afterward, Eric's mother took him and his older sister Marjorie back to England, a common domestic arrangement at the time; India was fine as a place for husbands to work, but children were to be brought up in the homeland. Richard Blair joined his family during his infrequent leaves. A younger sister Avril was born when Eric was five...
...sentence. Sam epitomizes Fugard's profound irony: Master Harold, insecure and ashamed of his situation, is pitied by his Black servant, who in turn, despite his position, retains pride and human dignity...
...long enough to have a thought other than of him self and his troubles. Day by day, minute after minute, he lived in pain, pain his only memory, questioning the necessity of it, inveighing, though with affection, against God. Why so much, Gottenyu? If He wanted to teach His servant a lesson for some reason, some cause - the nature of His nature - to teach him, say, for reasons of his weakness, his pride, perhaps, during his years of prosperity, his frequent neglect of God - to give him a little lesson, why then any of the tragedies that had happened...
...knew of architecture into the building of Taliesin as a new home for them both. Changes of this kind are ill-fated by ancient superstition, but few have met such a fate as Frank Lloyd Wright's. In 1913, a Barbados Negro servant had run amok at Taliesin, murdered its mistress, her two children, an apprentice and three others, burned the living quarters to the ground. Wright buried his mistress alone, and lived there alone for months. Then he began to rebuild Taliesin...