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...seems to want above all a safe society, and he has discovered that art can be dangerous. This is nothing new. As a poet in one of Yeats's plays says to the king against whom he is asserting his rights, "When did the poets promise safety, King?" Peter Wirth Teaching Fellow...
BARNUM AND KNOX complement each others' strengths again as Conchubar and Cuchulain in On Baile's Strand, but this play uses the relationship of two lesser characters, the Blind Man and the Fool, to equal purpose in commenting on the progress of Cuchulain's life. Peter Wirth and Joel Davidson succeed only partially in filling these two roles with intelligent but unrealized interpretations. Director Donnally Miller emphasizes the mutual dependence of the two half-men well enough, but the scenes where they're alone, ideal for comic improvisation, drag more than they should...
...Reading their passages from two almost invisible black books, the narrators (Ann Fay and Kim Fadiman) appear to be gazing down on the village itself, as they involve their listeners by addressing them with the repeated invitation, "only you can see..." The other narrator, the blind Captain Cat (Peter Wirth), was, for Thomas, the natural bridge between the eyes and the ears of his radio listeners, but Wirth's grizzled dignity lends an especially sympathetic dimension to the part...
Also, Arthur J. Jacobson, Lowell, Social Studies; Harry E. Shaw, Leverett, History and Literature; Simeon I. Taylor, Quincy, Biological Sciences; and Peter H. Wirth, Adams, English...
...Berenger's office make a fair accounting for themselves -- no more. Buddy Mear as Papillon does a nice job of caricaturing The Boss, Peter Wirth as the sceptic Botard gets too loud too fast, Richard Petkun as Dudar, the office commer, has no poise whatsoever...