Word: soliloquy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girls, chairs pulled out from under their prospective occupants, burlesque dialect and gestures, and even bad jokes. But Wilder has not forgotten the innovating spirit of his Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth days, either. Every main character in The Matchmaker has at least one outright soliloquy in which he steps up to the footlights and blatantly tells the audience his thoughts and motivations, and at the end each of them gives his own idea of the moral of the play. Far from being awkward, Wilder's soliloquys present humor with a timing and characterization that are charming...
Smug Little Incubus. Author Brophy is Londoner of Irish descent. At 24 she writes clean, cool English prose, shows a perceptive grasp of her material and has turned out a pointed and amusing little satire. Her last chapter, entitled "Soliloquy of an Embryo," follows the brief career of Edwina's "snug, smug self-sufficient little incubus." It is the kind of fantastic literary device that only a very competent and very serene writer could bring off. Author Brophy manages...
...from Rage. The way in which Dylan (pronounced Dillon) Thomas celebrates God and man is not always easy to grasp. He thinks in soliloquy, like Hamlet, perhaps in the hope that the modern world, which seldom hears the modern poet, may sometimes overhear him. Unlike many modern poets, Thomas has never been bitten with the "social consciousness" bug; again like Hamlet, he wrestles with the dilemma of self-consciousness...
...precise uncontracted English. While the effect is slightly strained, I think it adds to the general effect. Most of the performers handle the conversation well, but Robert Brooks, who has a part both in the cocktail party and the flashback speaks as though he were reciting a Shakespearean soliloquy. The other actors especially Neil Powell as Ransome manage to hold their balance, although there were a few muffs in Wednesday's performance. Excellent direction by Jewanne Tufts and Frank Cassidy make the most of the dramatic transitions...
...your services . . . shall cease at the close of business today." Morris, cocky as ever, replied, measuring the words: "I've-never-been-fired-before . . . I'm not mad at anybody ... I don't care very much, as long as my wife loves me." Later, during a soliloquy for the benefit of newsmen, while he fed peanuts to the pigeons in Lafayette Square, he added: "I've been fired, and now all the influence peddlers can come back again . . . Yes, sir, everything was going to be cozy, cordial and comfortable until they found out I meant business...