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 | | Most of the play's action spans the years just after the war, when Pound, taken into custody by the US Army, was first detained, under horrific conditions, in Pisa, then transferred to St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, DC, where a fictive diagnosis of mental illness allowed him to evade prosecution for treason. |
 | | There are plenty of dramatic-irony groaners as well-at one point, Olga assures him, "When this is all over, your Cantos will be studied--not Eliot, not Frost." The unfortunate climax--an encounter between a failing Pound and Allen Ginsburg--plays like a sketch from some forgotten early-60s revue. |
 | | The rest of the cast seem hamstrung by their roles, as Dorothy and Olga, Jennifer Sternberg and Nicole Orth Pallavicni are a pair of drudges, tending to their charge with remarkable detachment. |
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