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...Walrus is ambiguous enough to keep you wondering how serious the Beatles really are. Richard Poirier, the reigning Beatles explicateur, said last month in the Partisan Review that "the Beatles' most talented member, John Lennon, has written two books of Joycean verbal play that suggest why no one is ever in danger of reading too much into the lyrics of their songs." So don't sell the allusions short...
...difficulties than he has faced head on, and the result is a definite success. The extent of the success is a measure both of the good theatrical judgment of Michaels and his company, and of the tremendous virtue of those elements of the text--the love plots, the broad verbal humor, and the many options for comic stage business--which this production plays...
...erratic in his attempts to use stage business in harness with Shakespeare's verbal wit or verbal wisdom. Often he finds success in pointing a line with a gesture, but sometimes too, his compositions are simply too full of movement for good focus. On a few occasions, he has literally obscured potentially funny or significant dialog by drawing the audience's attention to some simultaneous comic bit. In a single instance, he shows an excess of reverence to the lines, freezing an admirably raucous forest banquet to a tableau, while Jaques (Kenneth Tiger) puts the "Seven Ages of Men" through...
Often mental patients do not talk at all, because they feel that speech has led them to traumatic experiences. For them, most conventional forms of psychotherapy are impossible. In dance therapy, the patient frequently begin to re-establish communication on a non-verbal level...
Disturbed people are often wary of being touched. But in dance this barrier can be broken down naturally. Patients can express themselves easily by dancing in therapy sessions. The non-verbal communication thus established with a sensitive therapist often leads to a renewal of verbal communication with the patient. At that point, psychotherapy can begin...