Word: slapstickers
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...changes his name to Rudy Valentine. When his wife (played by Carol Kane) lets the bathtub overflow in the couple's posh hotel suite, Wilder passes it off as an added luxury of the place and swims laps, to the astonishment of his aunt and uncle. The slapstick is pure Wilder. He not only stars in the film but is also the writer, director and producer-a quadruple task he says "makes me want to go home and cry sometimes." Despite the obvious comic overtones, Wilder, 42, insists that his film is romantic at the core. Says he: "Everything...
Sandwiched around the bar and the jugglers is a revue of songs, skits and jokes tied together by the clever verbal slapstick of their humor, the energy and talent of the excellent cast and the fact that many of the lines of the lyrics do not end precisely when the lines of the music...
...dreams. Sleeping, we press desire against frustration, seeking resolution. When we fail--when dream replaces desire as the engine of imagination--we cross the fine line between dream and nightmare. The Adams-Quincy production of A Midsummer Night's Dream takes this distinction as a central tension. With slapstick played against the sinister, the result is at once amusing and alarming...
...Jeffrey Rothstein, struggling valiantly with a wrinkled, Bozo-esque bald-cap, nevertheless succeeds as the crabby, meddling Egeus. All five of the Athenian workmen-turned-actors give good performances, but David Anderson as the bellowing, overeager Bottom deserves special notice. It is easy to play this role as pure slapstick. Anderson goes beyond mere egotism and develops Bottom as a buffoon--grabby and self-centered, but well-meaning, without snobbery and pretensions. We get the feeling that if Bottom was accused of his faults, he would stand befuddled, wondering, Me? You can't mean Me? He is a consummate...
...plot is complicated and overgrown, including both sighing lovers and slapstick comedy, the latter provided by rustic laborers rehearsing an opera within this opera. The main weak point is the tendency for overlong recitative passages that stretch audience interest thin at times. The singing dialogues, however, especially the rustics', are splendid. In the end, after all the trials and tribulations of True Romance, there is a grand reconciliation when the status quo is restored. Good-humor and realism prevail over magic. At this point, the rustic laborers' comic rendition of the tragedy of Pyramus and Thisbe is not only...