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Immediately after the end of the first one-act play, the second one. "Capital Crime, Parisian Punishment," begins after a brief set change. Written by George Feydeau, the play consists of condemned prisoner's monologue. Played by Peter L. Stein, the prisoner agonizes over his hopeless fate as he relates the story of his imprisonment and subsequent sentence of death. Through the prisoner's dimwitted innocence and straightforward telling of the absurd facts of this supposed crime, the play mocks the injustices of the French judicial system in the late 1890s. Stein's performance is startling as he maintains...
Addressing his story directly to the audience. Stein maintains a constant high momentum throughout the monologue with ever-changing facial expressions and tones of voice. Until the end, he constantly bemoans his own fate as one "so bright, so young, so handsome." More sedate than the first play. "Capital Crime, Parisian Punishment" balances off the giddiness of the first half of the evening with the pathetic humor of an unjustly condemned...
...wife's affections for La Mole, played by Randolph. Randolph, as the foppish lover, saunters around the stage and monopolizes it with his highly stylized movements. The scenes between La Mole and La Passionelle as they plot to throw a murder charge on the last character. Dupont (Stein), are marvelous. As the lovers develop their plans. Dupont, an innocent admirer of La Passionelle, is indeed mistaken for a murderer, when in fact he is only a love-stricken professor of Latin. Stein as Dupont adds a sense of ingenuousness as he did earlier as the prisoner. Spouting off Latin phrases...
...Light in the Attic, Silver stein...
Heat like that is just a hassle, as the punks learned very fast. Their music gave way to the more aloof sounds of the New Wave, which either dead-ended in private experimentation or smoothed itself out into elegant pop cadences. Says Chris Stein of Blondie: "There is so much money to be made that radio and record companies are just totally paranoid. They won't change, they won't experiment. If the Stones were an unknown group and they came out with Satisfaction today, it probably wouldn't get any air play...