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...driver of the construction vehicle, which was leased by the California-based company Barker's Leasing, was unavailable for comment...
...North America's bigger and better theaters and the world's most faithful keeper of the flame for the white-bearded windbag of Fabian socialism, is sponsoring a debate premised on the heretical idea that its patron dramatist should be outranked as a playwright by his colleague Harley Granville Barker. Although recalled chiefly as producer (The Doctor's Dilemma), director (Major Barbara) or actor (Man and Superman) of many Shavian debuts, Granville Barker is being ballyhooed by Shaw Festival artistic director Christopher Newton as "maybe the last undiscovered great playwright...
...debate -- one might as well expect a huzzah for the superiority of Marlowe among the merry merchants who profit from bardolatry in Shakespeare's Stratford-upon-Avon -- but the festival is already making the case. The highlight of its nine-play season is a spellbinding production of Granville Barker's The Marrying of Ann Leete, written in 1899 when the author was 22 and promptly dismissed as "a practical joke" by the Times of London. A century later, it feels startlingly fresh and new, its language conversational rather than expository, its events surprising yet rooted in character, its sensibility feminist...
...Festival, founded in 1962, is unique in being devoted solely to modern classics. It performs "Shaw and his contemporaries," defined as plays written between 1856, the year of Shaw's birth, and 1950, when he died. Noel Coward has been produced 11 times, becoming a secondary focus, and Granville Barker is scheduled for the same treatment. The one-act Rococo will appear next season in a lunchtime slot on the schedule, traditionally reserved for short Shaw (such as this season's tiresome young-Napoleon foofaraw, The Man of Destiny). A full-length work, Waste or His Majesty, will appear...
...oblique text may frustrate audiences who want to know exactly what is happening. It gathers mounting power in three scenes: the parliamentarian's downfall, a Hogarthian country wedding and the tentative, unhopeful first night of the bride, the groom and the social wall between them. Whether or not Granville Barker surpasses Shaw, he is plainly worth this redemption...