Word: inquisitor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women, protruding from three giant urns. All speak at once, and none of them knows that the other two are there. Then a spotlight, often the most important actor in a Beckett drama, shines on each in turn, leaving the others in darkness. The spotlight is both narrator and inquisitor, forcing each of the three to tell his or her side of the same sordid story of betrayed love and adultery. Released from their urns and the grip of the spotlight, the three faces-of husband, wife and mistress-would be re-enacting a domestic triangle in an old-fashioned...
Bearded, blue-jeaned and barrel-chested, Alexander pursues his work with a zeal worthy of the Grand Inquisitor. Like his two assistants, he was involved in the hippie movement, then found Jesus and set up a mission in the Haight-Ashbury wilderness. "We told the protesters that they were fundamentally right in their critique of society but that their answers were inadequate." He was accused of being a fascist, or a pawn...
...that anyone else under John Clark's flaccid direction is giving her much acting competition. Robert LuPone's Dauphin is such a prancing cipher that one fears the crown that Joan se cures for him at Rheims Cathedral will melt his head. Paul Sparer, as the Inquisitor, gives a saturnine gravity to the renowned and convoluted speech on heresy, but his plea for justice with mercy is a trifle smarmy. Only Philip Bosco as the English Earl of Warwick conveys nobility in voice and bearing...
Jefferson Vander Wolk plays the Grand Inquisitor, a Machiavellian type who kidnapped the prince to prevent the spread of Wesleyanism, with less character. Vander Wolk's voice is strong, but for a powerbroker his appearance is rather wraith-like until he trips awkwardly into songs...
Whatever the motives of the fallen President and the enterprising TV showman, the historical perspective is extraordinary. For the first time, Nixon is facing a lone inquisitor who is under no restrictions on what he can ask about those presidential years. A public that may have grown quite weary of Richard Nixon can hardly deny its fearful fascination with, and continuing curiosity about, the man who became and still remains America's antihero...