Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attempts to give character to his leads or to fortify the humor of the text with sight gags, Paul G. Cooper reduces himself from a director to a variety of quartermaster. His sole purpose and accomplishment is to deliver the proper number of actors to any part of the stage which will accommodate them, in time for the musical numbers. No 18th-century or war could have been as staid...
...course, there are actually two plays on the Quincy House dining room stage these nights, but each one is there in fragments--half of the first (It's Called the Sugar Plum) and a third of the second (The Indian Wants the Bronx). You might want to check my mathematics, but I think that comes out to five-sixths...
...state-appointed lawyer, done very amusingly by Ken Pauker, argues for them with little success or enthusiasm. The play works so well here because all the characters are involved in the same activity, the trial, and all are, finally, very loose. In the epilogue Pantagleize roams on a darkened stage, amid more corpses than there are at the end of Hamlet, looking for an imaginary exit. Here is de Ghelderode's metaphor for modern existence: we are all dying in a trap without even knowing why. Miss Ebenstein's robust direction and Gordon Ferguson's fine acting wring every possible...
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...performances, though uneven in control and focus, all suggest a remarkable investment of energy. There results a sense of restrained favor in the playing which makes up for occasional lapses in comic timing. A great deal of good-natured conviction appears on stage inSchweyk, and from the standpoint again of didactic theater, nothing is so important as this. John Tatlock as Schweyk and Gerard Shepherd as his gluttonous companion Baloun are admirable, though I wished in each case for certain qualities of size, and especially of what can only be called earthiness--which only actors of considerably more...