rollick

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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

Short and sharp, 50/50 is a cheery punk rollick in which Casablancas's curdled holler winds the clocks back to the late 70s/early 80s cusp.

From The Guardian • Mar. 24, 2013

After 250 pages of determined intellectual rollick, Mr. Glassie turns serious in his conclusion, depicting Kircher as a noble seeker stranded on the wrong side of the scientific revolution.

From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2012

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