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Irish Playwright Hugh Leonard is a kind of family doctor among contemporary dramatists. He probes the aches and pain of a lifetime. Drumm (Roy Dotrice), the unheroic hero of A Life, whom we first met in Leonard's "Da, " is an aging civil servant with razor-blade lips and a cut tingly witty tongue. He is dying of cancer, and what he finds out in this play is that he has squandered his life by suppressing...
...aims to provide easily understood language and numerous optional forms of services. In the process, many resounding and beloved phrases have been dropped or altered. The archaic "I plight thee my troth" of the wedding vow gives way to "This is my solemn vow." "Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace" becomes "Lord now you let your servant go in peace." "We praise thee, O God" changes to "You are God and we praise you." "We are truly sorry and repent for our sins" replaces "O Lord, have mercy upon us miserable offenders." For traditionalists in England...
...some obscure "rocky place," Sir--the embodiment of England's insensitive aristocracy--and his servant Cocky--the embodiment of England's righteous lower class--imagine their own metaphysical stage and act out society's cruelties in The Game. As Sir arbitrarily changes the rules, forcing Cocky to grovel for a loaf of bread, Greasepaint seems like a Romper Room production of some absurdist play. For the entire first act, The Game follows its repetitive course with Sir betraying poor, dim-witted Cocky's confidence again and again...
...shriek, "But we didn't mean to end up with you!" Of course not. But they did mean someone as different as possible from some political boss's dopey nephew, and up showed the GS-12. It will take more reforming to produce the perfect civil servant or the perfect Congress or the perfect lobby system. But if the urgings are strong enough, Washington will change again...
...Iranians, who have refused all negotiations while Baghdad's soldiers remain on their soil, were indignant over the Iraqi letter. Railed one senior Iranian civil servant: "We shall see how much insolence Saddam retains when we put him on trial as a war criminal...