Word: weak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some fault may lie with Moliere. The plot is typically weak. The main action consists of an endless cocktail party, a number of ephemeral, off-stage lawsuits, and Alceste's failure to snare the insincere coquette, Celimene, on his terms of absolute sincerity...
RECALL AN OLD SAYING about letting rejected Pudding scripts lie? Or perhaps that they never die, but only move into the Houses? Both apply to Thebes Like Us, currently playing at Leverett Old Library. It remains essentially a weak Pudding script plus women, but sans the big budget and skilled hands guiding and controlling a campy flavor. It's hard to pinpoint the blame for Thebes's failure--whether it's Andrew Sellon's book and Andrew Schulman's music, or the production itself, directed by Sellon. But the evening ends up empty--bordering on the amateurish rather than...
...same movements and played too loud to let the lyrics come through, something gets lost in the translation. If you really want to hear the lyrics--or as few of them as the chorus enunciates--don't sit in the balcony. Most of the voices are too weak to carry. Like Borowitz, the director and choreographer work on the if-it-works-once-do-it-again-and-again principle and No Net gets boring. Some of the jokes are funny--"When I walk into a suburban kitchen," says the villainess, "all the little magnets fall off the refrigerator...
...blazered, pink-cheeked, Shecky Greene of a circus owner is familiar with Borowitz's brand of comedy. Too familiar, it seems, because he lets himself slip into boring routines and offers the same grin too many times. Hunt has some real stage presence but his voice is weak and his character confused; you never know whether he's Natalie's seducer or mentor...
...Tanzania's Nyerere had decided to pay Amin back in kind. His invasion force, small but well enough supplied with missiles that it was able to shoot down most of Uganda's air force in a matter of weeks, found Uganda's army surprisingly weak. When Amin ordered a counteroffensive late in January, it failed so ignominiously that even the usually resourceful Radio Uganda could find little to praise. When the poorly supplied Ugandans ran out of ammunition, one spirited broadcast reported, Amin's troops eagerly engaged in "boxing and wrestling" with the Tanzanians...