In a particularly antic mood, he talk-sang some songs, crooned others and devilishly bantered with audience members who called out for their favorites.

But his antic mood softened again.

He was in an antic mood in "Round This World, Baby Mine," a work of 1983 to a taped collage of ragtime and country-and-western music.

Although it has its serious subtext, "Celebration" is a case of the author in an antic mood, a change from the darkness of his last two plays, "Moonlight" and "Ashes to Ashes."

He seemed in an antic mood, and she decided to take advantage of it.

Mr. Maugans expertly recreates this antic mood in a performance that never for a minute betrays the time and circumstances of Mr. Shepard's search for his own style.

My antic mood had not left me, and his words stung me into further baroque action.

Mercy's antic mood became instantly serious.

In contrast to some of her other weightier musical pieces, such as "Fragments of a Trilogy" and "Dispatches," "Esther" is Ms. Swados in an antic, ethnic mood.

An antic mood sparkles through the tale.