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ENTERTAINING MR. SLOAN resembles electric shock therapy. One jolt causes momentary discomfort, but the current from a steady series of joits achieves a radical transformation. This play is not meant to delight us with raw sparks of wit and entertainment. It's more of a therapeutic treatment, which director Paul Warner has created to force a brutal awareness upon the vulnerable audience. The result leaves us dazed as we retrack our way from the play's hidden theater, which Warner dubs. "Behind the Iron Door of Adams House...
This crowding of the audience and actors, the discomfort of the room's size and location, and the stifling nature of the plot all serve as physical manifestations of the play's theme of oppression. It's an unusual opportunity to be able to witness such a dense dramatic experience in which the actors must be propelled by a continuous energy supply. They are never given an opportunity to lose their momentum as the complex plot unfolds...
...successfully reveals an abhorrence of women and permanent attachments. David Wingrove as Kemp movingly depicts a pawn in his family's sexual struggle. Constantly walking on and looking for suppositories, the father becomes an emblem for the absolute stagnancy of the character's lives, and nothing can relieve his discomfort or ours...
...course, change sections, or try to weather the storm, if one seeks any advice at all Many people are willing to advise the victim: senior tutors, the Bureau of Study Counsel. University Health Service, Room 13 and Lewis among them, but such advice may only ease the victim's discomfort...
...believe it or not, if it had just been the rain. I could have dealt with the situation. Once around the dryer and I would have been okay. But there was one other slight discomfort on that lovely October day--it was late in the second quarter, and undefeated (4-0) Harvard trailed previously pitiful Dartmouth (1-3) by a 17-0 score...