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...ingeniously sifted sampling of the poems, aphorisms and dramatic excerpts of a master of 20th century theater. Mixing surrealism and college humor, young (25) Arthur Kopit has mounted a splendidly zany attack on Mom behind the jawbreaking title, Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hun? You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad. Having recently crossed the 500 mark in performances, Jean Genet's audacious, exotic, unsentimental and eloquent dramatization of the color question, The Blacks, is still being enacted with undiminished zest and style...
...Which is precisely where the hapless Boubouroche finds himself. What is worse, he learns that he has been sporting his shameful appendage for eight whole years, since the very beginning of his liaison with his first and only mistress, Adele. Yet even when he catches her lover in the closet, he is powerless to unwind himself from around her little finger. For, as one of the actors puts it in a formally informal prologue to the double-bill, if Law is justice without temperament, Woman is temperament without justice, Entangled in the web of either, Man is equally helpless...
...Lost. The second is the scene in Midsummer Night's Dream where Bottom and his cronies prepare the "Pyramus and Thisbe" episode; here Evans, in a delightful virtuosic display, takes all the roles himself. The only tamdem bit that builds up any dramatic power at all is the closet scene from Hamlet, in which Miss Hayes' Gertrude is passable...
...thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret ; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly...
...King's marriage to Catherine of Aragon annulled, he fell into disgrace, and Henry deprived him not only of his chain of office but his palace as well. Since then, time has not always been kind to it. The small room known as Wolsey's closet was especially hard hit by history. Its ceiling was caked with grime; the paintings were so blistered, peeled and blackened with varnish that they were hardly worth looking at. It took restorers 18 months to complete their work...