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Anna, a thirtyish schoolteacher, contracts Acquired Toilet Disorder (ATD), a fatal scourge confirming what every mother already knew--that no good can come from using bathrooms at bus stations. Anna (Francesca DelBanco) and her brother Carl (Michael Stone) set off on a wild trip across Europe, in part to see the cities they've always dreamed of, in part to search out a mysterious quack doctor touting a remedy based on the drinking of, well, urine...
...seniors in the Iota Chapter are: Phoebe A. Cushman; Leemore S. Dafny; Francesca B. Delbanco; Sadhana Dhruvakumar; Tanya L. Fenmore; Joan C. Han; Nadia A. Herman; Natalie F. Holt...
Holding everything together is Belinda, played by Francesca Delbanco, the mother hen and company gossip. Delbanco's exaggerated facial expression seem slightly overdone it the first act, but serve her well in the second as the action moves to pantomime. Her clever miming allowed the audience to catch every word--and say it aloud for her. By the third act, Belinda is trying to lead the company out of the woods, improvising for the mentally and verbally challenged. Delbanco's gives a perfectly outrageous delivery of Belinda's efforts, summing up an entire scene by announcing loudly to the audience...
...plot pivots on the character of Mrs. Romaine Vole, Leonard's wife. The talented Francesca Delbanco, somewhat miscast as the elusive and always mysterious German wife, is successful in giving the play its much needed jolts. Her scenes add both interest and dimension to this colorless play. Believable as the jilted lover, Delbanco is also able to take a cheesy De Palmaesque ending and give it legitimacy and seriousness...
...brighter note are Jacob Broder as Costard and Francesca Delbanco as Boyet, the Princess' chamberlain. Costard is a classic Shakespearean clown who counteracts the pretentious nobility by his own plain speaking. Broder's enthusiasm is infectious and he gets more laughs than anyone else in the show. Broder even pulls off a rather contrived time warp joke that could easily have flopped. Boyet is one of the few mature characters in the play and Uphoff (who doubles as her own costume designer) stresses this by contrasting Boyet's formal suits with the other women's hippie attire. Delbanco does...