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"Since I had made the suggestion that led to [De Hoffmann's] calculation, I expected that we would jointly sign the report containing the results. Freddie, however, had other plans. He signed the report with my name only and argued that the suggestion counted for everything and the execution...
...Prison. Their hands were clasped together in the traditional Buddhist greeting and lashed to an upright pole. In each upraised hand, prison guards placed a ceremonial candle, joss sticks and a garland of small, pink Siamese orchids. Then a dark blue curtain was dropped behind each victim and the executioner fired a burst from his machine...
That morning Police Chief General Phao Srihanond had dropped by for a last chat with Private Secretary Chaliew, his comrade-in-arms during an anti-government coup back in 1932. "Good-bye, old comrade," said the general as machine-gun slugs tore into his friend. After ten rounds, Chaliew was...
But where His Father's Image is weakest, Richard's Inside Contemporania is most impressive. The author has written an engaging satire on the idealistic stranger visiting the modern scene, which requires near-perfect execution for success. Director Harold Scott has handled it admirably. His groupings, timing, and gestures are...
Although His Father's Image comes out second best of the afternoon because it suffers in execution, both plays are easily up to the thoroughly satisfying standard the workshop set last spring with its first student productions.