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...that she's always feral. In fact, Harrison is as fundamentally chatty as Nora Ephron. In this collection she seems to be chatting over morning coffee with her best Greenwich Village friend. Her prose is wicked conversation, full of anecdotes, observations, comic asides, and devastatingly sensible reasoning. But the casual tone conceals a penetrating seriousness. Despite her glibness Barbara Grizzuti Harrison is always driving home a larger point...
...think that people are any less concerned about registration," Nora Leyland, a spokesman for the Boston Alliance Against Registration and the Draft says, adding "But the end of the term is here and people have to pass their finals." James Bristol, director of the national anti-draft effort for the American Friends Service Committee, concurs with Leyland's judgement but declines to explain the "cooling off" period of April...
Thus it was an odd sight to see not one but ten Lucia Chases onstage at the close of a three-hour show that mixed short excerpts and pas de deux with bows by beloved former dancers like Irina Baronova, Muriel Bentley, Sono Osato, Nora Kaye, Annabelle Lyon, Violette Verdy. Against a deeply shadowed backdrop, Chase seemed to appear in her old roles: actually dancers were costumed as the young girl who dances the prelude in Les Sylphides, the greedy virgin in Three Virgins and a Devil, the doll in Petrouchka, the Columbine in Carnaval, the eldest sister in Pillar...
There are three central characters: Louise (Roxana Stuart), a genteel widow; Nora (Naomi Riseman), a widow of lower-class origins; and Louise's teen-age daughter Gloria (Melissa Leo). They live in Bethesda, Miss., at the turn of the century. In her widowhood Louise has taken a younger man, Mr. Merriwether (David Williams) as a lover, but he has left for a job in Memphis. She is desolate and yearns for his return. There are hints of Blanche DuBois in her, and white is the dominant color of the play. The set is white except for a square black...
While Louise is given to poignant reflections, her constant visitor, Nora, is a bearer of upside-down cake and earthy common sense. They are bound together by unutterable aloneness, and they summon up the apparitions with a brief incantation about eternally unresting souls in order to have someone further to talk to. But after the apparitions have told their sad stories, the widows are chilled through their bones...