Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Skittering about the stage in mock retreat, Marian Seldes is awkward, angular, sexy-and touchingly vulnerable. She gives the finest feminine performance on Broadway. A graduate of Chicago's Second City Troupe, Troobnick brings to the play an improvisatory skill in portraying the contemporary personality who changes views, looks, and even voice in a matter of seconds...
...modern man with a modern maid is surpassing strange, but Playwright Holofcener has got it on stage, got it laughing, and got it right...
...funny enough to leaven the despair, and what comic spirit there is has been muffled in this Manhattan production by the APA Repertory Company. A 90-minute mood piece on the palpable fear of approaching death, the play has been given a sleepy rather than springy staging by Director Ellis Rabb. Instead of displaying regal authority and a poignant awareness of death, Richard Easton as the king mopes, whines and stumbles about the stage in tattered melancholy, a sort of counterfeit Lear...
...American 'space bus' consists at present of a single ballistic missile stage with a number of warheads, all of which can be guided to separate targets. Obviously such a delivery system will work on an orbiting satellite armed with nuclear warheads...
Princeton may be a different story, but as one observer said early this week, "We always save our biggest surprise for Princeton." A win would be great for Harvard, but at this stage of the season, it's probably not in the tea leaves...