Word: teas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Consider the plot of Tea Party, a one-acter that, along with The Basement, is being offered off-Broadway. The central figure is Sisson (David Ford), a middleaged, successful British manufacturer of bidets. A self-made man, he prizes decisiveness, precision, strength of character. A widower, he marries a genteel second wife (June Emery) and hires a miniskirted, sexually provocative secretary (Valerie French) in the same week. He invites his wife's brother (John Tillinger) into the firm. His wife becomes her brother's secretary, and the pair indulge in faintly incestuous reminiscences of days on a gracious...
...floor. He explains the man's anger with a series of visual and auditory irritations--the impassivity of Alison (Karen Grassle) at the ironing board, the obnoxious clang of evening bells, the black and white tedium of a litter of Sunday newspapers, constant courteous offers of a cup of tea...
...keep it that way. For instance, the script calls for Porter to kick a cistern, then sit and play it like a Bongo in the second act. Jory has junked that and instead has Jimmy playing a complex jazz solo with plates and glasses on the bleak little tea table, as Alison announces that she's going out with her friend Helena. "That's not a direction," Porter replies in perfect syncopation, "that's an affliction...
...home during summer vacation, Jimmy finds that the subjects of those slides shrink, blur and become distorted. He half realizes that he is beginning to see old friends, new cars, his father and the N.Y. Yankee., through the eyes of an English schoolboy. He decides that the world of tea and Sopworth isn't so bad after all-until his re-entry into it, when he is buffeted more harshly than ever. Crikey! Now his sensibilities are hopelessly suspended somewhere in mid-Atlantic...
...last saw him in his tiny one-room apartment in Moscow, which was dominated by a huge black and white canvas entitled The Fish Merchant and Fish. Neither merchant nor fish were in evidence-it was hardly an example of having "knuckled under" to Communist social realism. We drank tea and listened to Tallin playing a lute (made with his own hands) and singing old Russian ballads learned from blind minstrels, with whom he traveled from village to village begging alms when he was a young boy. I was told that he ran away from home...