Word: tales
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Angi Vera is a film of paradoxes. The setting-at least for Americans-is at once exotic and dismal. The heroine, Angi Vera, is a fierce mouse. The style is gentle, almost pensive, yet the tale told is near savage in its implications...
Though she allows her tale to veer toward farce, Tyler always checks it in time with the tug of an emotion, a twitch of regret. Morgan's responses are outrageous, but his stimuli are natural. He reminds Bonny of how he used to fear that their baby girls would die: " 'Relax,' you'd say. Remember? But now look: it's as if they died after all. Those funny little roly-poly toddlers, Amy in her Oshkosh overalls-they're dead, aren't they?" His bitter conclusion: "They've dumped their hamsters...
Where Prince lets a tale carry itself, the show succeeds but when he lets the company get carried away, the story gets sacrificed for momentary laughs. Katharine Kean is screamingly funny in the title role in "Henny Penny" but as she clucks her way around the stage for 20 minutes, the story gets lost. Cornelia Ravenal fancies herself a character actress, as she switches obnoxiously from mediocre southern to annoyingly silly to inconsistent Eva Gabor in a series of tales. John Smith's problem is different but the results are the same; in "The Little Peasant," Smith plays a tough...
...MUSICAL FAIRY TALE begins to fall apart when the prospect of parenthood forces Cliff and Sally to look more seriously at their happy-go-lucky lives. The pace of the show picks up, and in a short, confusing scene, a Nazi soldier appears on stage, sings "Tomorrow Belongs to Me," and disappears. Perhaps van Druten wishes the audience to experience the confusion the German people actually felt about what was happening around them. We already know what happened, though, and this mournful scene only puzzles a modern audience...
...introduce other sordid children and wicked adults. Fires predominate in Darkness Visible, as a great bomb blast at the end complements Matty's fiery furnace. All of Golding's characters in one way or another are ravaged by these unyielding flames, which serve as bookends for this allegorical tale...