![]() ![]() He most clearly regards a literate cockroach as a big deal an obvious, flat point of view. He delivers his story not in the style of the unperturbed old hack, calling 'em as he sees 'em, but with dramatic pauses and grimaces of amazement. The framework of archy's little satire is altered by the same slight over-acting of the Boss (Belden Crane Johnson), the journalist who keeps archy supplied with typing paper and apple peelings. ![]() Because the audience reacts slowly, it misses entirely some of the good moments that hurry past. Although there are places where this is appropriate, there are more, particularly in the beginning, where it is not. There is nothing dead-pan about Mare Temin's archy he delivers his lines with velocity, emphasis, and evident feeling. Unbroken by capital letters and sparsely punctuated, it reads like a kind of slow, dead-pan monotone and provides the perfect backdrop for the good phrase, the turned cliche, the well-dropped contradiction. In book form, all archy's prose is in lower case (the cockroach typed out his copy by jumping onto the keys, but was not heavy enough to depress the shift lock). In cooperation with light and set designers he has solved the technical problems involved in staging 26 closely connected scenes.īut somewhere in the staging the good lines, the nice phrases, and the archy's-eye point-of-view are lost. #Anne archy full#In constructing a good script and in introducing the occasional stains of saxophone and mandolin-instruments well suited to evoking the New York of the early twenties, although perhaps not used to their full potential in this production-director Dick Gottlieb has started quite well. The point and the problem is to preserve in stage production something of the quality of archy's prose. But still, the interpretation of archy determines how much dramatic mileage can be gotten from archy and mehitabel. Most readers resolve these by regarding him as a type of masculine lady bug, and a director would probably gain little by probing the entomological implications of the creature's identity. It creates, however, horrible problems in dealing with Don Marquis's archy. I have been told that the cockroach is of all insects the most repellant as I have never seen one, I have no reason to doubt the accuracy of this judgement. ![]()
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