Word: bradish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mode is much more successful in the last, and best, story in the Metamorphoses series, when Cheever keeps only the mood of magical transformation. Goaded by the Surgeon General's report, Mr. Bradish gives up tobacco and his sanity. "Late in the party, a young woman wearing a light sack or tube-shaped dress, her long hair the color of Virginia tobacco, came in at the door. In his ardor to reach her, he knocked over a table and several glasses. It was, or had been up to that point, a decorous party, but the noise of broken glass...
Dunster House had two directors for this production, Gaynor Bradish and John Asher, which fact may account for its heterogeneity. They gave up one of the best possibilities of the play, that of delighting the eye with a great Roman spectacle, by giving it in modern dress. Weli, not quite modern dress. Men wore tuxedoes and lit their cigarettes with Zippo lighters, careful not to burn their Edwardian sideburns. Caesonia (Caligula's mistress) appeared in several very Roman costumes, one modern evening gown, and one outfit that would not have been out of place in the chorus line...
Earlier plans for a London production with Dame Judith Anderson have been cancelled. Although the work has not yet been produced professionally, Hill & Wang last month published the text of Kopit's play in both hard-cover and paperback editions, with an introduction by Gaynor F. Bradish '52, instructor in English...