Word: daughters
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George Hamlin makes the father of the family lively and sympathetic in this Harvard production. Nancy Cox is a prattling wife and mother, Mary Moss a disgruntled daughter, and James Shuman slides and glides through the evening as the dumb schmurz. On all counts, this is one of the most interesting and satisfying productions the Harvard Dramatic Club has done in the last 15 years...
There are "characters," too, members of an American family in Simon Watson Taylor's translation of the French original. They are, all but one, fairly normal people: a middle-aged father and mother, their young daughter, their contentious maid-of-all-work, and, for a single scene, a visitor from an apartment on the same floor of an apartment house where they are presently living...
...schmurz is an endlessly silent witness to the strange antics of the father, the mother, the daughter and the maid of this family: people who would seem to be normal in many ways, for they sit and stare part of the time at a huge television screen where a hilariously silly soap opera goes on and on, interrupted by equally hilarious and equally foolish commercials. But they move a lot, and for reasons not clear...
There is heard from time to time a great Noise, which rumbles and grumbles with definite menace. When they hear the Noise, mother, father, daughter and maid move upstairs one more flight, to get away from...
Each time they move, they leave something behind. As they go higher, they begin to lose people: the daughter is shut out, the maid walks out, the wife is unable to make it to the topmost floor...