Word: dunnock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brian Bedford, the Shakespearean veteran who won a Tony nomination last year for Timon of Athens, has the central role in both plays. In the first, School for Husbands, he's the overprotective guardian of a young woman (Patricia Dunnock) whom he intends to marry. She, however, has other plans-namely, getting the guardian to unwittingly bring her together with the younger fellow she really loves. Bedford, wearing long Ben Franklin locks and mugging dryly to the audience, helps overcome the sense that these are stock characters whom Moliere would develop more fully in later works...
David Ackroyd as George is the archetypal history professor, who speaks solemnly, holds forth portentously and submits wordlessly to his small-scale destiny. David Macdonald is suitably well-muscled as Nick, but isn't very convincing during his more intelligent outbursts. Patricia Dunnock is far too annoying and babyish as Honey for us to really feel the horror of her climactic drunken confession. It seems a mistake for director Larry Arrick to make Honey and Nick so ludicrously two-dimensional, for it undermines the true cruelty of George and Martha's manipulations if we feel Honey and Nick aren...