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...lights of the climax in Rex were replaced by the shattering booms of Zeus' thunder; even Laura Esterman as Ismene, with emotion shivering in every syllable, was drowned out by the noise. Friedman as Creon again, Richard Backus as Theseus, and David Blocker, who replaced a less talented Lorenzo Weisman of Rex as the leader of the Colonus chorus, supplied that immeasurably graceful skill of speech which brought me back from the visual, just as I had wanted...
...with the audience; yet Skolnik has coached them to make a flawless transition from portrayers to portrayed. And he has succeeded in making dewy, sentimental lines like "my bride will dress in sunlight with rain for her wedding veil" sound plausible. He has skillfully used the mute (Lorenzo Weisman) in his various roles as a wall, a tree, a bricklaver, and nature...
...Miss Laski's original script, Russians and Americans appear on the scene as mirror-images ("we come as comrades," says one commander, "we come as friends," says the other), but the Russians have been cut in the re-writing. The ensuing anti-American tone is heightened by Brice Weisman's snarling caricature of an American military man. But in general, Thomas Bissinger's production is as sophisticated as Miss Laski's political vision is banal...
Minsky O'Ryan and the Magic Bathrobe is not entirely bad. As Minsky, a man who destroys things, Lauent Weisman is very effective. He portrays Minsky with a forceful calm that the play lacks. Richard Black plays his dinner guest, an advertising executive, with the deliberate superficiality the role requires. But it is not much of a role, and Black's jittery movements and exaggerated expressions of joy only add to the chaos of Sisson's play...
...only were all of the players in Others good; most of them were excellent. Weisman, Mlle. Lathrop, Joan Oppenheim, and Puorro deserve the highest praise...