Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week the Iraqis outdid themselves. Sixteen people were executed by firing squad or gallows for plotting against the Baathist junta of President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, which seized power in 1968. "All conspirators will be crushed to pulp," cried Al-Bakr. Baghdad radio punctuated its attacks on "reactionaries and deviationists" with a new musical number titled No Mercy Any More. In subsequent days, 21 more alleged plotters were executed, in addition to seven Iraqis accused of helping the CIA plot a coup last year. So far, 98 people have been done away with since the beginning...
...Bates and Redgrave-and we don't get their characters either. Instead, Georgy gives us two actors, Dilys Watling and John Castle, who dress like their film antecedents, use some of their prototypes' mannerisms, and proceed to walk through a clumsy recreation of the film's slight plot...
...doesn't get better. Jos is established by window-entrances, feet-shuffling and puppy-dog looks. When he suddenly-very suddenly-falls in love with Georgy it means nothing to the audience on anything more than a plot level. And when he just as suddenly leaves her in the second act, it means nothing more to the audience than that it is almost time to go home...
...lest the obvious slip away, there is more wrong with Georgy than the fact that there are no people in it. With no characterization in the book, it by necessity must be top-heavy with plot-and there is not enough plot to go around. Action stops dead at the beginning of Act Two-so much so, that the first three musical numbers of that act could be done in reverse order without necessitating more than small changes in the book. The sub-plot, involving Georgy's rich suitor, has hardly been integrated into the show at all and perhaps...
...takes place more in a realistic than a moral context. Fuller never says Merrill, or the reporter, is wrong. The Marauders do take their objective; Shock Corridor is "the magic highway to the Pulitzer Prize." Not having enlisted much audience sympathy for his hero, Fuller does not reverse the plot against him at the end. Instead he follows him through a world constantly informed by the duality that drives...