Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...production's most surprising success is the way the self-parody of the Fairies is successfully preserved. At no point do they become stale examples of Victorian whimsy. They prance on-stage as jokes, and they stay funny until the end. The Peers are excellent--booming out their lines or strutting across the stage with an exaggerated comical concern for their own dignity. Their first set of costumes looks ludicrously cheap--they're cut out of the kind of felt familiar to elementary school audiences. Again, probably the budget and not the imagination of the G & S Society...
...variety in sizes, shapes, and prices will allow you to find just the right one for almost anyone you know. Something unique for a friend or a relative; something grandly elegant for someone very special. We've opened a little Victorian showroom over on Newbury Street; we're open from 10 until 6 all week and from 11-5 on Saturdays and we'll be here as long as the collection lasts. Visit us while they're still here, you could make someone very happy...
...left at the door. Alan Bennett, one of the quartet of Beyond the Fringe a decade ago, has constructed no more than a sloppy farce, but in Director Frank Dunlop's nimble hands it becomes an uproarious kaleidoscope of pratfalls. The Wicksteeds live in a world still superficially Victorian, but underneath there rage fires of frustration fed by the characters' anxiety that if an opportunity arises, their sexual equipment may be unequal to the occasion. Thus every double-entendre is not merely dirty but wistful. The cast acts as if high on speed. Two are supreme. Donald Sinden...
...full backing of their families. Hance, who is a widow, had her three grown children working in the campaign. Hayes's family was likewise supportive, with her doctor husband contributing financially. Hayes nevertheless admits her son did not at first want her to run. "My son was just a Victorian male chauvinist teenager at the time," recounts Hayes. "Now he's proud that I tried...
...Socrates said, the unexamined life is not worth living, what proof can Frances find that the examined life is any better? Her determination to stare down her own happiness makes Drabble's heroine both amusing and touching, an avatar of all those women in Victorian novels who tried to patch together their own ethical systems during the decline of official morality...