Word: unevennesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lady Audley's Secret takes flight from the Victorian potboiler of the same name and soars into satiric absurdity, complete with off-key arias. Uneven but interesting. At the Wilbur...
Blazing Saddles, Mel Brooks's latest film comedy, is the feature at Harvard Sq. this week. There's no denying this movie has its hysterically funny moments, like when Alex Karras gets in a belligerent mood and punches a horse in the mouth, but the film is oftentimes uneven and bordering on tasteless...
...master of the art form in America, is the featured performer during this first act. He's just a joy to behold. The second part, "Unnatural Acts," is an original theater piece that dispenses with mime tradition--a lot of the humor is verbal rather than physical--and is uneven in execution. "Unnatural Acts" has its moments though; an impression of cute little Shirley Temple singing a cute little "On the Good Ship Lollipop" is supposed to by hysterical--almost as funny as Ms. Temple's politics. The performance costs...
...appreciative audiences. The National Mime Theater, now playing at Lesley College's Welch Auditorium, may have gone a ways to solve that problem. The troupe has combined old-fashioned mime with the stylized anarchy of a clown show and the result is a production that is at times uneven, but one that is unusually creative and often extremely funny...
Kerr's is a performance full of remarkable detail right down to a special wide-stanced uneven gait, and the black-bordered and lace-trimmed handkerchief in which he sequesters Olivia's ring. His celebrated yellow-stocking scene is severely marred, though, by the absence of the prescribed cross-garters. What's the idea of trying to make do with a pair of ordinary bow-knotted circlets around the knees when the text refers nine times to cross-gartering? F'shame...