Word: dumb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elephants are kindly but they're dumb...
...attempts at conversation; Sellers listening to a songstress while exhibiting a polite rictus of squirming agony because all the bathrooms are occupied. But most of the evening is just about as trite and tedious as a real-life party would have been with such a stereotyped guest list-the dumb cowboy star, the stuffy clubwoman, the fading movie queen, the international-society siren, the current sex symbol...
George Hamlin makes the father of the family lively and sympathetic in this Harvard production. Nancy Cox is a prattling wife and mother, Mary Moss a disgruntled daughter, and James Shuman slides and glides through the evening as the dumb schmurz. On all counts, this is one of the most interesting and satisfying productions the Harvard Dramatic Club has done in the last 15 years...
...Still Dumb, Still Menacing...
...third and final act, there is no one left but the father--and the schmurz, still silent but now beginning to make contact: moving packages which the man has brought upstairs to this his ultimate retreat, yet still dumb, still quietly menacing...