Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lowell House production seen in preview Wednesday night is a success, although credit must go to the score more than to anything else. The versatile set by William Buckingham manages to evoke a feeling of Victorian dinginess and boasts a high tower for the ghosts to appear on. The lighting, by director Daniel Freudenberger, gives us some chilling moments when the ghosts do appear. These scenes are also blocked effectively, but at other times blocking is clumsy and even ludicrous--as when the children play a halting game of hobby horse. Much of the dramatic tension of the script...
When Dr. Thomas tells his daughter Lisa that she will mary Martin Rosenbaum--a Jew, natch--"over my dead body," Father, Son, and Holy Ghost hits the depths of undergraduate soap opera. But it moves on quickly, and while Barry Forman's play never gets around to resolving itself, satisfactorally or otherwise, it certainly does get around...
From a ponderous opening in which Dr. Thomas's son shoots himself with an unloaded pistol, Ghost springs into a series of wonderfully funny monologues which, for the first act and much of the second, more than redeem a rather uninteresting plot. The last act is again ponderous as it attempts to make minimal order of the entanglements already created...
Most of the conflict in his play ends up verbal, and the dialogue tends to overwhelm what little action there is. Yet enough of the individual lines and characters, and of the overall conception, works that Father, Son, and Holy Ghost almost does...
...message of Father, Son and Holy Ghost comes, as one of its characters says of one of its lines, "off a Salada tea bag." And like most of those senseless proverbs, it's kind of funny...