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Judy Melinek's startling production of The Poker Session, by Hugh Leonard, deals out an enthralling theatrical experience that deserves and demands a full house at the Loeb Experimental Theater. Under T.J. Mitchell's direction this superb cast delivers a seamless and chilling performance of a darkly comic morality play turned horror story...
...allegedly the brainchild of Michael Cesar, 48, a felon who formerly ran a similar service under the name DIAL-A- JOINT. Now Cesar faces serious time in a joint of a different kind. Last week he was arrested by New York City narcotics officers at his Greenwich Village comic-book shop -- where cops on the scene noticed a conspicuous absence of comic books -- and charged with possession of reefer madness. Conspiracy counts are likely to follow...
...look of this movie is not idly chosen. It functions to reinforce the comic resourcefulness and astonishing gumption of its cast. The world is so large, and they are so tiny -- notably the title characters, Bernard and Miss Bianca, top operatives of the International Rescue Aid Society, but mice all the same. They are straight arrows, but their supporting menagerie includes a full range of furry, feathery and scaly scamperers, caperers, klutzes, all delightfully addled, all in constantly inventive motion...
...November sweeps, local-news category, when it scheduled a three-part series on infidelity. What with baleful budget problems, an enigmatic mayor and the onset of holiday anxieties, it might be argued that New Yorkers didn't need something else to worry about. But the infidelity stakes seemed almost comic relief, a list to be swapped and talked about by the regulars in the fitness centers or the bars...
...deflecting attention from a self he finds shameful. This imparts a particular poignancy to the final sequence, in which he at last unmasks his yearning soul to Roxane and confronts death not with swirling cape and whirling sword but with a sweet and welcoming comic gravity...