Word: stage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Arthur Miller undertakes the story of his 72 years with almost none of those disadvantages. His best-known works are for the stage, a collaborative medium and, in his view, one meant to arouse passions. His plays have frequently been topical, occasionally incendiary, and he researched them with the fervor of an investigative journalist. Opinionated and outspoken, he relished the platform that his fame provided and undertook a running battle with McCarthyite elements in Government. They retaliated by stripping him of his passport, summoning him before the House Un-American Activities Committee and trying him for contempt of Congress...
...center stage is Prime Minister Herbert Blaize, 69, a lawyer who was elected in 1984. Blaize has been criticized for his remote, autocratic style. Last year his administration abolished a labyrinthine tax code in favor of a 20% value-added tax. Grenadians bemoaned the levy in a calypso song and even dubbed a local virus the VAT flu. Blaize has begun, amid yelps of protest, to reduce the flaccid civil service, which totals 7,800 employees in a population...
...best of the bunch are the old people. As Mama, Chungjoon Lee struts across the stage as a matriarch, conversing cutely with her family. And Sagara's ingenious accent and ability to dotter make the character of the grumpy old Chinatown boss. Chen in the silent role of China Mama manages to make her presence felt at the play's tensest moments...
...that for the only Caucasian character in the play Shin chose Jeff Karpel, who can hardly keep a straight face, cannot decide whether to deliver his lines to the audience or the other characters and has no real stage presence...
Goodman's new plays were "crying out for a forum," said Stage Manager Sarah Kozodoy '91, "and it's nice that they can be put on at Hillel." Kozodoy characterized the plays as "extremely pointed and witty...