Word: sons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...character. The settings include the nondescript corridors and offices of "the firm," interiors of London gentlemen's clubs, a richly cluttered bookshop and the drab comforts of Castle's semidetached house in suburban Berkhamsted. It is the town where Greene himself grew up, a schoolteacher's son so bored that he played Russian roulette with his brother's revolver...
...catastrophic consequences for Maurice Castle. Outwardly, he is shades of gray: a man of regular habits, careful with money and drink, competent at the office, where he specializes in Africa. The only striking thing about Castle is his wife Sarah. She is a black South African with a young son by a previous encounter. Castle met her while on assignment in the Republic, fell in love and promptly broke the Race Relations Act. With the help of a Communist friend, Castle and Sarah escaped the South African security police, fled to a nearby Portuguese colony and eventually to England...
...Indian politics." Her lieutenants grew fond of saying, "India is Indira and Indira is India." It is clear that she came to believe it too. But as a dictator she was hopelessly flawed, a lonely woman who turned more and more to her own family, particularly her zealous younger son Sanjay. "She could not escape her Nehru heritage," writes Mehta, "including her Nehru conscience." Incredibly, she did not realize, or perhaps refused to believe, the extent to which the enforced sterilization campaign and the behavior of petty officials had inflamed North India. And so she made the political mistake...
...PLAY generally follows the Biblical narrative: Samuel chooses Saul when the Israelites clamor for a king. Saul, a study in kingly ineptitude, disappoints Samuel in war and in government; consequently, Samuel shifts his favor secretly to David. David lives with Saul, who comes to love him as a son; but alas, David schemes to take power, aided by Samuel. A growing rivalry between the two leads David to defect to the Philistines, a belligerent tribe. David wins the battle, then drives the Philistines out, and feigns a sense of bereavement over the death of Saul in the battle's aftermath...
McDonough's Saul and Weinstein's Samuel also play off each other very well. When Samuel reprimands Saul, the tension between the two suggests a father-son confrontation. In a particularly gripping scene, Samuel, laughing maniacally, hacks to pieces a king captured in battle who Saul had refused to execute. In general, Weinstein does well with a poorly-written part. Samuel is unbelievably mystical, with his prophecies and his yoga-like formulas for steeling oneself to face death or danger...