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...American woman who lives in England, in Find Me, a drama about a disturbed young girl and her progressive deterioration at the hands of bureaucratic bumblers. While the key role is shared, Lisa Goodman is most affecting in suggesting the child's agony. In a totally different vein, suicide, adultery and attempted murder become almost folksy episodes in Crimes of the Heart. Playwright Beth Henley spins out a web of relationships among three Mississippi sisters, and, though the actresses (Kathy Bates, Susan Kingsley and Lee Anne Fahey) are uniformly fine and the play a potential crowd pleaser, the tenor...
Both Lucero and Berenson said the posters were meant to be taken in a light-hearted vein...
...confined to little asides slipped into or between songs. Of course, the supposed saga of the Blues Brothers' road to the top, as told on the back cover, and the appearance and stage act of the band are intended to amuse. Some of the songs are in a light vein, as well. But Belushi and Aykroyd did not record Briefcase Full of Blues as a comedy album. Belushi is clearly out to prove that he is a singer, not just a comedian who sings a little. His performances here, along with his renditions of "Louie, Louie" and "Money...
...comedic menace, very much in the Pinter vein, there is the homecoming of the grandson Vince (Christopher McCann), who returns unrecognized after a six-year absence. The family's horrific secret emerges when Tilden unearths a baby's black mummified body, his incestuous offspring by Halie, drowned in in fancy by Dodge. With the family purged of this infamous act, the farm will presumably thrive under Vince...
Christopher Fry's A Phoenix Too Frequent, which heads the double bill, is a broad satire of the Antigone vein of Greek tragedy. There are only three characters: Dynamane, a recently widowed noblewoman who has decided to die from starvation in her late husband's tomb; Doto, her feeble-witted and man-hungry servant who has decided to die from physical and sexual starvation with her mistress; and Tegeus, or as he is called by Dynamane, Cromus, a steedly Hoplite who blunders into the whole affair and falls in love with Dynamane. Using this simple plot and character framework...