Word: spastics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British Playwright Peter Nichols uses imagination and resourceful humor to traverse territory mined with pain. Albert Finney and Zena Walker deftly handle changes of pace and mood as the parents of a spastic child...
...Peter Nichols takes audacious risks in his play about a couple with a spastic child, putting an innately tragic situation through vaudevillian turns. Albert Finney and Zena Walker make the transitions between clowning and enduring with skill and taste...
...Peter Nichols takes audacious risks in his play about a couple with a spastic child, putting an innately tragic situation through vaudevillian turns. Albert Finney and Zena Walker make the transitions between clowning and enduring with skill and taste...
...hilarious forms part of the common round of existence-and of this startling play. British Writer Peter Nichols constructs a comedy of anguish, extracting laughter from the uncomic plight and blistering pain of two parents (Albert Finney and Zena Walker) whose ten-year-old daughter is a spastic...
...large, effective police force might have a chance, but the International Control Commission, spastic child of the Geneva Conference of 1954, is neither large nor effective, nor a police force; and it is unlikely to be any of these in the near future...