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...Ulysses Weldon Hyattsville...
...cast and the Kuumba Singers, Scott offers an effective wrap-up to the lighter main attraction. Shout! is particularly worthwhile because it offers a more serious view of the role of the preacher in Black society, along with spirituals, extensions of Brother Jero, and parts of speeches by James Weldon Johnson and Martin Luther King Jr. Kathleen Gatson and Jacqueline Kearney especially stand out in this part of the production...
This mannered little comedy of bedroom hanky-panky aspires after wickedness-the word Nabokovian is used wistfully in the dust-jacket copy-and achieves naughtiness instead. But that is enough to sustain Author Fay Weldon's fifth novel, one of those lazy summer afternoon collusions in which the writer feels superior to her characters, and the reader smiles at the writer...
With so many genes busily at work, all would seem to be well with the author's warm-weather fiction. But Novelist Weldon is much too fond of the kind of ornateness that clutters Iris Murdoch's lesser novels-in this case, the ponderous idea that Hamish is Rumpelstiltskin and Elsa is the poor girl for whom he spins straw into gold. Gemma insists that Elsa do huge batches of typing each night. Elsa can't manage it, but Hamish...
...time, though, the reader entertains the ghastly suspicion that the author has distorted her comedy in order to convey some symbolic code message. Not at all; the novel hasn't an idea in its head, and rightly so. If the Rumpelstiltskin business had been chucked out with Weldon's first draft, her account of Elsa's undoing could have scaled the foothills of superior nonsense...