Word: sorceresses
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Stumbling into quicksand, the hero is on the point of disappearing when he is saved by Maila, Ina's kindly sorceress-grandmother. His former friends ostracize him for wanting to marry Ina--who, loving him, cannot marry because she fears churches. And so on, until our sprite meets a tragic end, dying on the forest floor under a full moon; and only the owls answer her lover's frantic calls...
...seated on a crude stool, her head bowed, before her judges. In a series of subtly conceived flashbacks, she plays out her great scenes: from the meeting with "a man in a beautiful clean robe with two great white wings" to her final defiance before those who call her sorceress and heretic: "What I am, I will not denounce. What I have done, I will not deny." Hallmark Producer-Director George Schaefer's light-and-camera play brought splendor to the color screen, and elaboration to each of Joan's many moods and moments...
...unharmonized nature of the evening as a whole. In not giving a plain recital for those who want blues and ballads straight, Libby accepts the challenge of the far more precarious one-woman show. And she hasn't the expert showmanship; she just isn't actress or sorceress enough. She manipulates herself, and the kitchen chair that is her only prop, in all sorts of bold, mannered, ingenious ways; but they call too much attention to themselves, or seem too cute, or wear thin too soon, or don't really blend with her songs...
Ruin & Flames. In desperation, Diogène resorts to voodoo. He attends the "baptism" of Lourdes's baby, which involves dousing it in a basin of rum and perfume and then passing it over flames. He allows his wife to be treated by a voodoo sorceress who whips her seven times and plunges her into a foul bath prepared from sea water, herbs and asafetida. But even Diogène himself feels it is too late. A few days later his eldest boy dies in a fever. His wife gone mad, Diogène himself is found dead...
There are few greater roles-or grislier ones. In Medea, the wife whom Jason has ignominiously deserted in order to make a more advantageous marriage, are mingled all a woman's hate, an Asiatic princess' stung pride, a sorceress' cunning, a barbarian's violence...