Word: conjuring
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...roles, however, just don't belong in this play. As the two witches, Bonnie Zimmering and Crystal Terry are lithe and successful dancers, but after two or three appearances and calls of "you'll be sorry," we are too. David Moore, who doubles as Preacher Haggler and Conjur Man, is unoriginal as, respectively, the stereotyped holy-roller and evil wizard. He is stock in his mannerisms and gestures, unseasoned on the stage. While Laura Rogerson and Ralph Zito shine in minor roles, John Smith as the hulking, rassling Marvin Hudgens is as shallow as one would expect. Smith should learn...
...easy play to do, but last night's H.D.C. production was very good. Its legend with music of a witch-boy seeking love successfully ran from the comedy of a revival meeting ("One more chorus and the Lord'll have him") to the fantasy of witches and Conjur men, to the realism of childbirth and rape...
...them thar hills. And that's what makes trouble. For Barbara so out-sexes even the girl witches with whom the witch-boy used to spend his time, riding around in the moonlight on eagles, that he wants to become a human and marry her. Warned by the Conjur Man that being human isn't easy, and enticed by the wiles of the girl witches, he nonetheless insists on becoming a man "with a soul." "You'll be sorry, witch-boy," wail the girl witches...
Half fey, half folksy, the play is based on the Southern mountaineer (not the Old English) ballad of Barbara Allen. For love of high-stepping young Barbara (Carol Stone), a witch boy in the Great Smokies (Richard Hart) has a Conjur Woman make him human. But he can remain so, the old crone tells him, only if Barbara stays faithful to him for a year after their marriage. On the last night of the year, the community,* at last awake to the boy's origin, compels Barbara to sin. (A rape scene that the censors knocked...
...conjur'd away...