rollick

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“Rubbish and Dreams: The Genderqueer Performance Art of Stephen Varble,” opening on Saturday, introduces Varble to a contemporary audience that wasn’t around to rollick in his ingenuity.

From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2018

Featuring 14 actors who rollick around and amid the audience areas and band pit, channeling 60-plus characters, the staging brightens and complements Bertolt Brecht’s all-too-relevant fable about power, self-interest, callousness and social inequality.

From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2018

Because it’s at this point in the book that things begin to really rollick.

From Slate • Aug. 5, 2014

But for all the directness of his appeal, Turner is a more problematic figure than the rollick of the evening suggests.

From The Guardian • Apr. 19, 2013

Next thing they were up in musty blackness, swinging silver hatchets at doors that were, after all, unlocked, tumbling through like boys all rollick and shout.

From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury