Word: walks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fighting gallantly against a book that deep-sixes its protagonists by the halfway point is a sweatingly exuberant cast. Doing his annual turn as a blonde-coiffed mountain is the estimable Bob Peabody, whose delicate elephant walk and open-mouthed grin (in which a Sopwith Camel could do circus loops without destroying the bridgework) remind one of a cross between Everest and Margaret Dumont. He is a natural wonder and a natural comedian. Mark Szpak's slithering, thrilling Juana deBoise puts him in a class with Lupe Velez and Luis Tiant--all unintelligible delights. David Levi as Sonya Vabitsche looks...
...trumpets, no color guard. Instead, the Presidents and their wives were preceded by Misty Malarky Ying Yang, Amy's Siamese cat, which stealthily descended the broad marble stairs, took one look at the assembled guests and swiftly retreated to safety. Misty Malarky thereby joined the Carter cardigan, the walk down Pennsylvania Avenue and the great limousine purge as a symbol of a new kind of presidency...
...BIZARRENESS in Come and Go is of another sort. The three women are film positives. Elaborately costumed, they walk and sit and whisper as if they were snapshots from 1910, the play could be an existential joke, a reductio ad absurdam of both comedy and farce. As the three characters, Kathy Bybee, Immy Humes, and Ilana DeBare seem ready to play their parts for laughs. One is haughty, another childlike, the third cute. But all aspects of the five-minute-long play are commendably understated, from the grey lighting to the long poses. It is understandable that a serious minded...
...better would show visibly on her face, while a new personal-best time might prompt an athlete to swim extra laps with seemingly endless energy. A euphoric basketball squad would rush onto the hardwood and mob each other with embraces when victorious, but when defeated the team would walk somberly to their locker room, grab a Coke and a pretzel, and hurry off to the solitude of a hot shower...
Isadora (Marian Seldes) acts it out at the front, along with just about every one else who marched by during the first quarter of this century. Even Stanislavsky has a walk-on, mimicking Marlon Brando's Stanislavsky-inspired Stanley Kowalski. Isadora dutifully responds as Blanche DuBois: "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers...