Word: zindel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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AMULETS AGAINST THE DRAGON FORCES. Paul Zindel's off-Broadway play about a self-destructive alcoholic and a neurotic but winsome adolescent is superbly played, and its melodramatic excess sings like pure truth...
AMULETS AGAINST THE DRAGON FORCES. Paul Zindel's off-Broadway play about a self-destructive alcoholic and a neurotic but winsome adolescent is superbly acted, and its melodramatic excess sings like pure truth...
Written by Paul Zindel...
CALL HER Betty the Loon, or call her a caring mother who just does not care about the right things in the right way. But whatever you call her, Beatrice, the main character of Paul Zindel's short play The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, is a compelling figure whose life has gone awry...
Bobis does not tamper with Zindel's script, preferring to heighten the psychological tension of the family's fights. If the performers (particularly Duffy) stumble a bit on their lines or technical problems plague their delivery, they nonetheless manage to make the eccentric premise of Zindel's play seem convincing...