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...BILLY LIAR. The far-out fantasies of a young clerk (Tom Courtenay) delightfully transform one of those bleak English cities into a non-U Utopia...
...19th century role was most often like De Gaulle's: to make the world pay heed to a beaten, broken France. Superbly confident, cool under the worst conditions, Talleyrand once sat calmly through an hour-long tirade by Napoleon Bonaparte and heard himself called everything from a liar and a traitor to a coward and a thief. In a final paroxysm, Napoleon described him as a "silk stocking full of merde." Without turning a hair, Talleyrand left the room, remarking only, "What a pity a great man should be so ill-bred...
...BILLY LIAR. As hilariously mirrored by Actor Tom Courtenay, a young man's fancies turn to lust, liquor, fascism, bloody revenge, anything at all to escape the grime and grind of working-class life in modern Britain...
...BILLY LIAR. As hilariously mirrored by Actor Tom Courtenay, a young man's fancies turn to lust, liquor, fascism, bloody revenge, anything at all to escape the grime-and-grind of working-class life in modern Britain...
...Chinese Prime Minister is an urbane liar of a play. In a triumph of style over substance, it serves its mental hash like Beluga caviar, pours its intellectual eyewash like Dom Pérignon. This sleight-of-hand artistry succeeds for two reasons. Playwright Enid Bagnold loves the English language with rare fidelity, and in the present semi-illiterate state of the U.S. stage, pure English makes an irresistible lover for an audience. Equally indispensable is an actress who can do no wrong from first entrance to final curtain. Margaret Leighton's eyes are wounds of inner pain...