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Keene, N.H., Summer Theatre: Moon for the Misbegotten. Eugene O'Neill's lesser-known drama of love and greed in New England...
...history as seen by Williams: from colonial days on, the American experience has been determined, broadly, by good guys and greedy guys. The good ones, notably John Adams, James Madison and John Calhoun, sought to establish a "corporate Christian commonwealth," in which all could prosper while restraining the greed of the few. Unfortunately, even the good guys were not willing to give up private property...
...surely the old warhorse has been spavined by time and enfeebled by continual exposure? Not at all. G.W.T.W. is as great a show today as it was 20 years ago, a magnificent piece of popular entertainment, undoubtedly the greatest soap opera ever written. It has war, rape, murder, conflagration, greed, hate, love, scandal, starvation, childbirth, costumes, nudity, whores, carpetbaggers, slathers of sentiment, dollops of comedy and the burning conviction that all this wonderful flummery is terribly real and exciting and important...
...Thus, in a high-priced market, they bring them out at prices that look like bargains to many amateur investors. Adds Josephthal & Co.'s Sidney Lurie: "We all know it's ridiculous. But the stock market reflects every human frailty, and the big one right now is greed. Others are fear and stupidity. They'll come a little later...
Malcolm told, in often hilarious, often shocking sequences, about the aloneness of a beautiful boy in a world that needed him. As soon as Malcolm becomes truly involved in this world, he is destroyed by it; he is victimized by the greed of those who love him. Its magnificent beginning which introduces us to Malcolm's plight is a fine example of Purdy's peculiarly over-generalized prose style...