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...often unsteadily, sometimes bursting out in wondrous and unexpected ways: the audience supplying a liberal amount of sympathy and imagination: and even the most accomplished contributions kept modest and self-effacing. It's a deceptively lumbering production, and not an inappropriate one. Aladdin in Three Acts is Mayer's wise and innocent paean to adolescence, that "state of grace" before the mask has been cemented to one's face, when one's body contains the universe and one's possibilities are similarly boundless. He has gathered his former classmates and collaborators--as well as a talented group of undergraduates--together...
...American audiences this may sound rather obscure. But Director Wajda (Ashes and Diamonds, Kanal) is a subtle and often witty ironist. He is also a wise and compassionate artist who never allows a political message to dominate the human story. Though they never meet, the man and the woman become, in effect, antagonists. Each represents the idealism of a particular moment. The crusading journalist must reveal the "secrets" of an evil system; he must resist, as he al ways has, the disaffection implicit in self-awareness and worldliness. Better to bury himself in the bitter anonymity that she succeeds...
...masterpiece on this bill, an exquisitely orchestrated work full of both lyricism and humor, is L 'Enfant et les Sortilèges (literally The Child and the Sorceries). Colette wrote the libretto, a serenely wise fantasy about a child's guilt after a temper tantrum. When L'Enfant was first produced in 1925, George Balanchine, then 21, provided the incidental choreography. But noble lineage does not burden this opera in the way that it does Satie's Parade, probably because it offers ample possibilities for different interpretations. The little boy (played by Mezzo-Soprano Hilda Harris...
...pairing is as before. Renato (Ugo Tognazzi) is still the wise, patient husband; Albin (Michel Serrault), the transvestite wife, remains prone to hysterics and to giddy romanticism. The two are involved in a rather strained spy plot after Albin comes into possession of a microfilm wanted by both the Súreté and what one must assume are Communist spies. It is only when Albin and Renato are forced to flee France and take refuge in Italy, at the home of the latter's mother, that the picture comes alive. For these are the backward boondocks, where women...
...Brian is a wise sailor--he doesn't make stupid mistakes," John says. "His self-confidence--which you usually develop after several years--is also one of hie greatest strengths. The times Brian hasn't done well was when he wasn't totally sure of himself, or when he questioned his judgement on wind shifts...