B12 - Weduceday, Oct. 14, 1981 - Nozth Shore News

cerpts from the work of that_

notable author, poet and
critic and gingerly cemented
together with a rather
melodramatic portrayal of
what Dorothy Parker
probably. felt at certain
moments of her life.

It is rather like a college
essay about which the
‘professor invariably says
“good idea but needs work.”

It .is a good idea,
imaginative and well thought
out, but where Parker's best

the play is like
without the bubbles. Ali the
elements are there but the

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THE PRINCE OF THE.

aes entertainment

not of

At the movies

In a 1931 review of The
Silent Witness, Parker said
“It is in no way an incendiary
contrivance, but it is careful
and steady and, if you are

too impatient a
Mature, an easy en-
tertainment for an evening.”

Could she have come back
to the theatre as part of the
audience rather than as the
Star of the show, as the play
supposes, I wonder if her

response would not have
been similar.
A one-woman = show,

Praising with Faint Damns is
the brainchild of Abby
Hagyard who created, wrote
and starred in this first
production by Pepper
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West Vancouver company.
It provides an interesting
overview of a changing
America which is brilliantly
summed up in.the opening
song, Recapitulation, by

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At its best the show brings
to life Parker’s work. There
is a wonderful enactment of
the short story The Waltz
and’ some of the wittier
poems are thrown out at
appropriate moments in the
action of the play.

But although the play has

flashes of life through the
work of Dorothy Parker,
never does it-bring Dorothy
Parker herself to life, which
is the stated intention of the
play.

There is no continuity
between the Parker ex-
cerpts, the biographical
facts, and the drama that
should hold them together
because the Parker figure
does not come to life on

ABBY HAGYARD as Dorothy Parker in Praising with
Faint Damns.

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