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COPY DESK: Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Barbara Dudley Davis, Evelyn Hannon, Jill Ward (Copy Coordinators); Minda Bikman, Doug Bradley, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, + Jeannine Laverty, Peter J. McGullam, M.M. Merwin, Maria A. Paul, Jane Rigney, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Amelia Weiss (Copy Editors...
COPY DESK: Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Barbara Dudley Davis, Evelyn Hannon, Jill Ward (Copy Coordinators); Minda Bikman, Doug Bradley, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, Jeannine Laverty, Peter J. McGullam, M.M. Merwin, Maria A. Paul, Jane Rigney, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Amelia Weiss (Copy Editors...
...Leverett House's production of the play, directed by Danielle Kwatinetz, the basic plotline has remained unaltered, as Florence Unger (Nora Dickey), a fastidious housewife, moves in with her slovenly friend Olive Madison (Rashida Jones) after both women separate from their husbands...
From the beginning, Dickey's whining, flaky portrayal of Florence makes her so unsympathetic that it is hard to imagine how Olive had become friends with her in the firs place, never mind why she would invite this walking neurosis into her home...
...audience never gets a sense of any personality from Florence, no insight into what created this tensed up, time bomb of a woman. Granted, the prissy Florence should be annoying, but not completely unlikeable. Dickey's failure to develop Florence beyond a superficial level leaves the characters with nothing to do but trade stale jokes about their relative cleanliness. In addition, the ululating, screechy voice that Dickey uses for her character is the equivalent of fingernails on a chalkboard, or a rusty train whistle...