Word: venomous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...show is funny, nonetheless. Director Grey Cattell Johnson has captured every drop of Moliere's satirical venom, and the spring of his theatrical tension is wound tightly. As the play opens, Marianne prepares to marry her beloved Valere. Plans are thrown out of kilter by Tartuffe, a hypocrite whom Marianne's father, Orgon, has decided that Marianne should wed Tartuffe instead of Valere. By this time, everyone else in the household has become sick from Tartuffe's hypocritical moralizing and pretended disapproval of even the innocent pleasures of dancing and receiving company. They plan to unmask Tartuffe's real nature...
...evoked a considerable amount of student venom since the Faculty created it in 1969 to hear the cases of large numbers of students involved in the takeover of University Hall and other political demonstrations...
Despite a trio of transcendent performances and occasional moments of mercurial passion, A Lesson from Aloes is curiously stillborn. Fugard relies far too relentlessly on talk, the inspissated venom of the impotent. It is as if his cha acters were constantly grappling fate at the tonsils, rather than grabbing it by the throat...
...affably acerbic Klein is also a veteran of Chicago's much esteemed comedy training ground, Second City, where he worked with the likes of Fred Willard and David Steinberg. "David was mean. Inconsiderate. A pest and a twirp." (Klein seems to be reveling in the sheer delight of his venom, more than really meaning what he says...
...There is venom in the voice now, and Michael again talks about the threat--the government is out to get him and other Bible-believing right-wingers; it has usurped far too much power (through welfare programs, the post office network, public school systems) and wants to "legislate me out of existence...