Word: geralyn
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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Vernal Point, by Geralyn Williams, deals with the occult. Five characters decide to have a seance, and strange things happen. One girl, Mickey, falls into a trance followed by a fit of hysterics. Did what she see in the trance actually occur, or is there some conventional explanation like repressed sexuality? Paula scoffs at the idea that the vision was real. Verna, an insidious looking woman with an East European accent, dares her to offer herself as a victim for some occult event. More strange things happen...
...PLAY'S bawdiness and humor are over-emphasized in this production: the citizen Donado (William Fuller) could have fumed at his foolish nephew Bergetto without blustering like one of the magistrate-midgets who greet Judy Garland in the land of Oz. Geralyn Williams as Putana, Annabella's buxom attendant, is a parody, in every stagy sense of the term, of the ribald nurse. Maeve Kinkead as Hippolita-the sex-starved Wronged Woman of the piece-storms around like a steam engine out of control until releasing the last painful gasps of her already overstrained voice on a mobile platform which...