Word: dryad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worse than bad thought and bad poetry, The Tree Witch is bad drama. Four men have captured a dryad. Frightened of this child of light, they ask the help of three women (known as the Aunts) in crushing the dryad. A series of attacks are made on the dryad, in the course of which it becomes drearily apparent that the Aunts and the dryad are struggling for the souls of the men. Finally, predictably, the Aunts are recognized as the Furies (surely, after Eliot and Sartre, the old ladies deserve a rest) and, forced to a choice...
...speaking under theatrical conditions), one, at least, did not know his lines. I have no objection to letting the audience know what is happening by means of large signs, but they need not have been carried on and off by an overweight female in slacks. Finally, Deborah Steinberg (the dryad) deserves some praise for her voice, but an attractive young girl cannot become a tree witch simply by taking off her shoes and putting on a green dress...