Word: witness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From the How Time Flies department: This year's team is obviously very different from last year's 15-9 squad in a number of ways, but you may not realize just how different it is. To wit...
...Director Erich Neher has transformed the lavish 1960 Broadway spectacle into a rather brilliant small-scale production. The lords and ladies of the cast are lively and skillful in all aspects of the show--songs, silly puns, and earnest speeches alike. Their performances, with the help of Neher's wit, create a charming night at the castle...
...interesting to note that not once in the first part did Crisp touch upon homosexuality. In the second half, however, this was also the subject of many questions. It was also the topic to which he responded with sensitivity rather than his habitual wit. Only at this point did he became more of a real person and less of a parody of himself...
There is no doubt that Quentin Crisp is a man of great style and great charisma, even though the man is a mass of contradictions. He appears on stage as a writer who performs rather than a performer who writes, and he is much more a wit than a philosopher. Yet at the same time, there is that odd, sensitive, moment when he can silence an audience just as well as he can draw applause...
...polarized Irish politics. As a phallic tombstone rises backstage, the two prostitutes (Gonzales and Lisa Peers) mourn the murder of one of their more active comrades. Cronin's attempt to seduce a young lady (Catherine Harris) in the cemetery becomes a bizarre waltz of carpe diem, pitting his hedonistic wit against the all-too-serious violent intentions of his fellows. By intermission, the audience is hooked by the bizarre humor and intriguing scenarios of the first...