Word: pasquin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meryl Streep slowly overcomes a role she was not meant for - Isabella, the hysterical novice who is asked to sell her virtue to Angelo to save her brother's life. Lenny Baker is hilarious as Lucio, advocating lechery in the accents of Will Rogers. Director John Pasquin keeps the play moving, even through those last toyings with fate and shotgun marriages whereby the playwright pastes a sickly grin on this mask of tragedy and squa lor. Measure for Measure was Shakespeare's poison-pen letter to the world...
...Kenneth McMillan (the fat landlord, who informs the students that their "openness" is going to "save this fucking country" but whose putative benevolence doesn't keep him from keeping their deposit) seem to be best, but this may be just because they have the best parts. John Pasquin directs well, and William F. Matthews' set looks as though Weller's people could inhabit it. The second act has a couple of short dull stretches -- a series of jokes about relevance that don't seem awfully relevant any more, and a brief appearance by Bob's uncle to let Bob know...