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Deitch grossly misplays Diccon, the one role which might have substance, assumedly with Kaplan's approval or instructions. Diccon is a Bedlam, a lunatic released from the asylum to beg about the country, like Poor Tom in King Lear. Deitch plays him as a controlled crafty-plotter--a fuzzy combination of Puck and an American confidence-man. His dress and manner is stylized motley rather than lunatic tatters. His elegant flourishing makes him swallow the many good jokes he has, and completely twist his character...
...plot, as much as one cares, is about the strange disappearance of Dame Gurton's sewing needle (Raye Bush is Gammer, not the needle). We eventually find it in the britches of her man Hodge (Dan Chumley), an acrobatic archetypal simpleton, but not until Diccon the Bedlam (Dan Deitch) has thrown everyone at each other's throats and chickens...
This second recorded English comedy involves a quarrel between Dame Gurton, Jack Prudden '42, and Dame Chat, Donald Eldredge '43, over a needle lost while Gammer is mending the breeches of her servant Hodge, Dan Shook '44. Diccon, Howard Oedel '43, the villain who keeps the quarrel going, is foiled by Master Bayly, Charles Breuning '42, who finds the needle in a surprise ending after Dr. Rat, William Musgrave '42, has failed...
Alan S. Downer 1G is directing the play. The cast follows: Diccon, Edward H. Turner '36; Hodge, Walter S. White '36; Tyb, Edward V. Malcolm '35; Gammer Gurton, Ralph Lazzaro '36; Cocke, Edmund S. Morgan '37; Dame Chatte, C. Robert Moore '35; Doctor Rat, Donald Armstrong '35; Mayster Baylye, Robert Warner '35; Doll, George W. Wickersham, II '35; Stage Manager, D. Stuart DeBard...
...cast has been chosen and rehearsals have been started under Alan S. Downes 1G, who is coaching the play. The characters and players are: Diccon, Edward H. Turner '36; Hedge, Walter S. White '36; Tib. Edward V. Malcolm '35; Gammer Gurton, Ralph Lazzaro '36; Cocke, Edmund S. Morgan '37; Dame Chatte, C. Robert Moore '35; Rad. Donald S. Armstrong '35; Baylte, Robert Warner '35; Doll, George W. Wickersham, II '35. The play will be run on the technical side by George T. Skinner '36, stage manager; David I. Hesmer '36, costume manager; and Douglas W. Overton '36, manager...
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