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...doctor who created the world's most famous sleuth, was really "a compulsive self-revealing allegorist." Rosenberg unearths both hard and agreeably circumstantial evidence that Conan Doyle modeled the evil Professor Moriarty on Friedrich Nietzsche -not because the philosopher was a criminal but because Doyle's Vic torian conservativeness was offended by Nietzsche's ideas about Ubermenschen who were beyond good and evil...
French farce is customarily associated with the bedroom. There are no bedrooms in Scapino, but the evening is filled with sheer comic bedlam anyway. The Young Vic presented this Molière farce earlier in the season at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. It has returned in a hands-across-the-sea gesture to aid the financially beleaguered Circle in the Square Joseph E. Levine Theater. Scapino should prove to be just the right box office tonic...
Molière's title was Les Fourberies de Scapin (roughly, Scapin's Knaveries), and the playwright borrowed the basic outlines of the story from a famous Roman play, Terence's Phormio. The Young Vic has switched the locale to Naples, and performs the work in the bouncy tradition of British vaudeville...
...people in the Young Vic Company are as nimble as acrobats and perform with a swinging verve and a broad comic style. The nimblest of all is Dale, a versatile actor, British TV comic and composer (Georgy Girl). In his facial contortions and his airborne, aisle-hopping feats, he is a direct descendant of the great physical clowns-unforgettables like Bobby Clark, Bert Lahr, Harold Lloyd, W.C. Fields and Buster Keaton. It does not require much prophetic vision to foresee that Jim Dale will share the same renown some day. · T.E-K...
Meanwhile, the New York Rangers traded captain Vic Hadfield to the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for defenseman Nick Beverly...