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...direction finds its just rewards and her complicated feats of staging can only improve in timing and finesse as the play continues in its run. Joining Brock (who, to his credit, goes so far as to roll down an entire flight of stairs) are Penny Goslin as his fiancee, Sylvia Kingsbury as a neighboring old lady and Tim Clark as the prospective father. All three manage to match Brock in calisthenics, but each, in his or her way, adopts a bit too much of an accent to be held accountable at all times for their words. In contrast, Ralph Martin...
...babysitter knocked on her door, got no answer, knocked on the apartment below, got no answer, looked frantically for help, but it came too late. Sylvia was the winner of a lottery she had only perfunctorily entered. Her most ambitious attempt at suicide was at nineteen; she swallowed fifty sleeping pills and hid in the back of a cellar, an act whose authenticity she patronizes and flaunts in The Bell Jar (1971). Her two later attempts wind down with less conviction, but sadly, with greater efficacy. While she was still living with her husband. Ted Hughes, and her two children...
...Although Sylvia Plath said to A. Alvarez, a whiskey in hand with one clinking ice cube in it, that she only missed the States for the clinks its abundant ice provided her drinks, clearly there was a tension in her, an almost geographical tension, created by her expatriation. This tension is only one of the ambiguities, the reticences, that stays her newly published collection from the calibre of her late and last poems contained in Ariel...
...first of Sylvia Plath's poetry the reader watches the poet watch herself. As her work matures, her inward eye rotates ever more outward into clairvoyance, where her experience becomes transparent to her and she is able to project it into its utmost mythological and symbolic limits. In Crossing the Water, "Who" is the lifeline to the clairvoyant "Daddy" in Ariel. Not amazingly, the poem addresses her other parent, her mother. In "Who" her voice comes into its own momentum; it is aggressive and unencumbered, and her concerns are elemental...
...this prophetic poem, and "Crossing the Water," there is no poem in this collection, in its entire, that is sterling. There are lines, however, here and there, and verses which strike a silence to which the knowledge of having found something lovely returns on mute feet, and meekly; as Sylvia Plath would have it. "This is the silence of astounded souls...