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...Brian Bedford, the Shakespearean veteran who won a Tony nomination last year for Timon of Athens, has the central role in both plays. In the first, School for Husbands, he's the overprotective guardian of a young woman (Patricia Dunnock) whom he intends to marry. She, however, has other plans-namely, getting the guardian to unwittingly bring her together with the younger fellow she really loves. Bedford, wearing long Ben Franklin locks and mugging dryly to the audience, helps overcome the sense that these are stock characters whom Moliere would develop more fully in later works...
...second play, The Imaginary Cuckold, is even briefer, but busier and more satisfying. Bedford, this time with a wisp of flyaway red hair, is a mistrustful married man who thinks his wife (Suzanne Bertish) is having an affair with a young swain (David Aaron Baker) who, in turn, thinks his fianca is secretly married to Bedford. That's only about half the misunderstandings in this cramped, convoluted farce, but director Michael Langham keeps the threads from tangling and knits them into one expert, entertaining weave...
Unfortunately, Roosevelt is hardly a better choice. He has shown his political ineptitude most notably in his outspoken opposition to a New Bedford casino, a project that both Weld and the vast majority of state residents support...
Still, he is trading on his clout, which just last week brought home new pork, saving more than 500 jobs which had been scheduled to be cut at Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford, Mass...
...immensely popular and financially rewarding Massachusetts State Lottery, officials say they are in an "assessment stage" over a change in strategy if the New Bedford casino becomes a reality...