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...lines. Richard Brinsley Sheridan wrote the play in 1775 but with a little rewriting and an update on the cursing ('Zounds' and Odds whips and wheels' just wouldn't make it any more) the play could easily run on Broadway as a slow-paced Neil Simon comedy. Director Norman Ayrton has already begun the rewrite in a minor way. Originally, The Rivals was set in Bath, England; here Ayrton uses Boston in the early 1760s to create a mood of recognition...
...Rivals, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, is the play that introduced Mrs. Malaprop and herisms to the world. It's getting a Mainstage production with a professional director, Norman Ayrton, so chances are that it should be good, I guess. The play itself is simply eleemosynary. Opens tonight at 8 at the Loeb...
...Ayrton is taking the production of "The Rivals" with due seriousness. For instance he has completely changed the locale of "The Rivals" in order to help his actors. "We're setting it in Boston, rather than in Bath, for one very simple reason--the language. I don't believe that accent matters at all, but students seem to worry about it a lot. So I said let's remove the problem from them for a start, so they don't have to worry about how to sound like smart London or Devonshire aristocrats because the social life in Boston around...
...Ayrton, that is partially what makes comedy in a play like "The Rivals" so fascinating. It demands terrific skill...
...Ayrton regrets the lack of time, and also the lack of professional polish. But for him, that's a perennial problem...