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Divorced. Sean Connery, 43, the Scottish actor who was typecast as Superspy James Bond in Dr. No, Thunderball and four other 007 epics; and Diane Cilento, 40, novelist and actress who played the randy wench Molly Seagrim in Tom Jones; after eleven years of marriage and one child; in London...
...marrying a child bride (Victoria Mallory) who, after eleven months, is still skittishly virginal. Completing the household is Cariou's son (Mark Lambert) who has a jittery case of postadolescent puritanical guilt and an unholy crush on his stepmother. He, in turn, is pursued by a lusty wench of a maid (D. Jamin-Bartlett) who believes that sex is an act rather than a word...
...that money is thicker than blood. By now, the characters are classic, and they all live up to their names: Peachum (Gordon Cornell), the informer and fence; Lockit (Ralston Hill), the venal jailer of Newgate; and MacHeath (Timothy Jerome), the saucy highwayman who can down a wench as quickly as a cup of sack. As two of the ladies of his choice, Polly Peachum (Kathleen Widdoes) and Lucy Lockit (Marilyn Sokol) are erotic sprites...
...just because it's sanctioned by the state. According to some ultimate kind of morality, he's right; still it's clearly the suck of action that involves him. After avenging the plot to murder his father, he flees to Sicily, getting back to the earth and into a wench named Appolonia. By the time he returns to New York, he has as much control over himself and his loved ones as his father. He is also in the tradition of second generations, more cold-blooded and intellectual, more Organization than Family. Pacino makes the changes real: if at first...
...means us to know how differently a man behaves toward those he considers his equals and those he considers his inferiors. Goldsmith notes the disparity between man commanding his pleasures and man attempting to please, and the divergence, in the case of sex, between seeing a woman as a wench and contemplating her for a wife. The entire cast, especially Jane Connell as Mrs. Hardcastle, vivifies these differences with zest, style and high good humor. With revivals like this, who needs new plays? T.E. Kalem