Word: witching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shot after shot in Strangers defies mental erasure: grey, panoramic views of Manhattan steaming like a witch's cauldron; two boys slugging it out in a hysteria of violence in one of those brick-strewn empty lots that pockmark the city like bomb craters; a woman's clothed and rigid body floating just below the surface in a bathtub, her open eyes transfixed in a death agony. Strangers dishonestly suggests that it is reporting the plight of a typical Puerto Rican family; in fact, few households would witness such a concoction of swirling agonies in a lifetime...
...know those cute little German barometers which tell you what the weather's like by popping either Hansel and Gretel or the Old Witch out at you? Well, that,s the way the staging was originally conceived for this production of ALL THE KING'S MEN. On opening night all the little scenes shot out of the back of the stage at precarious speeds, while the sets swayed and teatered precariously. But since then, the sets have been revised and simplified. By Saturday, the production was fairly smooth, though one still wonders why Mr. George Hamlin, Armistead, the set designer...
...Arthur Kopit. An evening of surrealistic foolery on the topic of why Mom is a witch. Goofy, oomphy Barbara Harris is the Lolita of off Broadway...
...condemnation and death of Michael Servetus, a brilliant Spanish physician whose denial of belief in the Trinity made him the first modern Unitarian. Both Catholics and Protestants must share the blame for what Nigg calls "one of the most shocking periods in the history of Christianity": the craze for witch burning that swept through Europe from the 15th through the 18th centuries...
...Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, by Arthur Kopit. An evening of surrealistic foolery on the topic of why Mom is a witch. Goofy, oomphy Barbara Harris is the Lolita of off Broadway...