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...Valentine, is the show’s playboy centerpiece. As a struggling dentist in the first act, Valentine is uncomfortable and frustrated. Soon enough, he and his landlord, Mr. Crampton (Thomas A. Dichter ’08) are invited to a lunch by the sea with the Clandon fam-ily. It’s the perfect setting for Valentine’s quick wit and crooked smile...
Watching Cutmore-Scott and Holding together, under Birnbaum’s light, able direction, is one of the show’s chief pleasures. Holding—as one of three children who have been taught to intellectualize their feelings away by their philosopher-mother Mrs. Clandon (Ansley D. Rubinstein ’10)—is naive without being oblivious. Whether Holding is angrily lobbing checkers at Dichter’s Mr. Crampton or curling into a heap on the couch, each new gesture is a revelation...
...Never Can Tell revolves around the Clandon family, whose grown children know nothing of their vanished father. It starts engagingly. A young man (Richard Binsley) poises like a vampire over an attractive young woman (Jan Alexandra Smith). The scene is not grisly but comic, as the bouncy, blue-painted sea behind them suggests. The man is a fledgling dentist who has set up practice in an English coastal town. He has a lot to learn; she--Dolly Clandon--is his "first tooth...
...Young Upstart, whose iconoclasm glides and shimmers rather than pounds and thunders. Unfortunately, others in the cast (Helen Taylor as the twins' icy sister Gloria, with whom the dentist falls in love; Jack Medley as the world's most dexterous waiter) are not quite up to the mark. The Clandon family's eventual reunion, like the sea around them, is a little choppy...
...provide an unusual background of symbolism for this play. For example, when Crampton, who cracks nuts with his jaws and rinses his mouth out with plain yellow soap, needs to have a tooth extracted, this incident seems like a prophesy of his impending castration as the paterfamilias of the Clandon household--but concluding that may be taking Freudian fetishism...