Word: colin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play is a prolonged joke on the theme of seduction. Tolen, a full-time girl chaser who "just isn't satisfied unless he has had it for five hours a day," shares a house with Colin, a bumbling schoolteacher who is desperate for sexual experience, and Tom, an imp whose chief delight lies in tormenting the other...
Into this household comes Nancy, an innocent country lass who's looking for the YWCA. Tolen tells Colin that he will "show how it's done" by seducing her immediately. His attempts are frustrated first by Tom's antics, and then by Colin, who desperately wants to "make her myself." Eventually, of course, he does...
...hour play, and Miss Jellicoe doesn't help her play any by making her characters so one-dimensional. Each has one characterizing action--which he repeats to distraction. Tolen, every time he sees a girl passing on the street, jumps out the window to pursue her. Colin, when confronted with anything female, cringes in terror. And Tom talks and acts crazily, but at least he finds more than one way to be mad. There's only one way a man can jump out a window, and the act tends to pall about the third time...
...gimmicks to "reinforce the total impact of the play," as she tells us in a program note. Each character's entrance, for example, is heralded by a flurry of background music, which eventually takes on Symbolic Meaning. When the tenor saxophone which originally played for Tolen begins to announce Colin's arrival late in act two, it means that he's been transformed, I suppose. In the tiny Hotel Bostonian theatre, where no seat is more than twenty-five feet from the stage, the music is merely distracting...
...issue one of keeping a promise to the club's members. The Harvard International Relations Council insured that Wallace would still be invited if the Young Democratic Club declined to sponsor him. In fact, at an Executive Committee meeting Colin Carl, a member of the faction advocating an invitation to Wallace at all costs, kept the IRC invitation secret to insure that the Young Democratic Club would invite Wallace itself. And when the IRC invitation was revealed, Burt Ross, now President of the Young Democrats, refused even to consider a joint sponsorship of the Wallace appearance with the IRC because...