Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chou: "In those years when you were working against the Communist Party and I was underground, I once escaped only five minutes before your men arrived. Let me compliment you on your skill...
Chen: "Let me compliment you on your skill in escaping...
Allegretti, too, got some and only some of his part. He played it for humor--and he got just that. Credit must not be denied Allegretti for the laughs at which he aimed: he got them, acting, indeed, with more skill than anyone else in the cast if also with more mugging and audience-facing. But his comedy was of an almost slapstick variety at times, never fulfilling its tragic implications for his family and his country, his style ranging as far as bombast toward the middle of the last act and mawkishness toward the close...
...Chavez's music reveals the expressive content of its choreography in general, if not unvarying success; it has both discreetly employed dissonance and pungency and melodic inventiveness. Sometimes it gives a sense of conventionality as well as of skill, while the closing episode provides some of the most expressively persuasive measures of the score...
...Ingram as a recalcitrant brother-in-law and Isabelle Cooley as Anna have the major parts, but there is only a fine line dividing the skill of the starring roles and supporting ones. Delineations of a philosophical bartender and a pseudo-sophisticated street-walker are especially well done. But the primary attribute of the play is that it can discuss a significant problem in an objective and straightforward manner, without destroying the inherent qualities that make it, above all, good theater...