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...spirit of the husband's first wife. Elvira, who is really no more appealing than his second, living wife, but whose unusual status allows her a snideness the other characters cannot match. Throw in an eccentric medium who tries to rid the couple of the unwelcome guest, and the comic possibilities are lush. Logic can have no place in such a world. "After all." Charles tells Elvira. "I've been married to Ruth for five years, and you've been dead for seven." Enough said...
...Fatima Mahdi), a bicycling enthusiast and old-fashioned medium given to "ectoplasmic manifestations" enters the scene. Madhdi's Mme Arcati is a short overly made-up lightening-tongued horror, but since this is precisely what Coward must have intended, Mahdi must be credited with a truly inspired bit of comic acting...
...Ashworth has managed to fuse ancient with modern. His two leads, Dionysus (Dede Schmeiner) and Nanthias (David de Berker) as the god and her servant, each display distinctive brands of comedy. Schmeiner makes her Dionysus an impish figure, a lusty Peter Pan, while her slave opts for a broader comic style, occasionally reminiscent of the Three Stooges. These two mug and grin at each other and, since the Fogg's courtyard leaves both stage and seating level, often draw the audience in on their jokes and jibes. At times their humor is more visual than verbal. Both exhibit the gestures...
...most baldly moralistic speech of the play, a condemnation of the apathetic "frogs" who are content to "let well enough alone." Yet her lyrical voice cases this speech onto the audience as the chorus slowly dances and pantomines around her. At other times the frog-chorus is strictly comic, as when the twelve hop around, individualized by bits of clothing as diverse as sun visors and knitted mufflers...
...Barbados the next day, another airport welcome took a comic-opera turn. Reagan stepped off Air Force One, listened to a band attired in starched white tunics, navy blue trousers and pith helmets play a quite creditable version of The Star-Spangled Banner, and mounted a small platform to receive a military salute. Suddenly a loud bang, followed by several more, made his security men jump. Smoke drifted over a friendly crowd of thousands, many shielding themselves from the sun under brightly colored umbrellas. It turned out that the Barbadian army had wanted to give the visiting head of state...