Word: gossiper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Source of Gossip...
...given as much lip service as gossip [Oct. 26], probably because it deals with basic human needs. Everyone knows that the gossiper loves the attention; as for the subject, Oscar Wilde summed him up neatly: "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about...
Talking about the lives of other people direct-judgment away from the talebearer while he is enjoying personal participation. In everyday life, gossip provides easy social interaction and just a tinge of intimacy...
Certainly, at least one of director Brian Sands's objectives succeeds in this production of Sheridan's The School for Scandal, running through this weekend--to make the audience feel that it is sitting in someone's Restoration living room eavesdropping on the hottest new gossip...
There's the Sheridan plot. Joseph Surface (Andrew Olson) has an alliance with the gossip Ms. Sneerwell (Melissa Franklin); the neighborhood thinks they're shacked up, but it's strictly a business relationship formed so that Ms. Sneerwell can entrap Joseph's brother Charles, which in turn would enable Joseph to pursue Charles's sweetheart Maria. And so forth, with old gentlemen, loan sharks, inheritances and marital quarrels all mingling in a rollercoaster plot that just can't be disliked...