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...arch and witty but secretly vulnerable Kay--a role that was written for Gertrude Lawrence--has a some what more difficult job; by the end of the play, all the male characters are pledging her their undying devotion, she plays the part with the languid voice of Joan Greenwood and the elegant mannerisms of Maggie Smith, but it's only during her solos--particularly the hauntingly beautiful "Someone To Watch Over Mc"--that her character develops the necessary magnetic appeal. Both Witham and McCarthy have excellent voices, and their duets are some of the high points of the show...
...color of a player's eyes from a $1.25 seat. At decaying College Park in Charleston, the mosquitoes outnumber the fans, the floodlights leave the centerfielder groping in the dark, and a park employee has to run out into rightfield every half-inning to update the Scoreboard. In Greenwood, Dave Fendrick, the young general manager of the Braves, has to collect tickets at the front gate, the dugouts are too small to shelter all the players, and in Spartanburg, Charlie ("Doc") Royals wears four hats as the Phillies' bus driver, clubhouse manager, laundry man and trainer...
THERE IS NO glorification of women writers or characters here. Spacks criticizes Esther Greenwood for the self-indulgent aspects of her madness and turn-of-the-century author Mary MacLane's failure to follow up her claim to genius with appropriate evidence. However, her criticisms are sympathetic, placing women in their historical-cultural contexts. She exposes the successes and failures of women as they try to overcome the situations in which the find themselves. These many misadventures, Spacks suggests, are merely different responses to the same reality, that of powerlessness...
...destructive condition--a cause for utmost ambivalence in virtually all women. The beautiful woman dreads that pregnancy will disfigure her. The career woman fears that motherhood will distract her. And the growing woman fears that motherhood will enslave her. Spacks again finds that an adolescent, in this case. Esther Greenwood from The Bell Jar, sees most explicitly the destructiveness which this particular kind of creativity can cause...
...small and crowded office of Ben and Joey. In an exhibition of dexterity that nearly matches that of their word-play, the two lecturers manage to avoid with a graceful and familiar ease the various chairs, desks, book cases, and lamp cords that clutter the stage. Director John Greenwood has taken his actors and put them in a confining (and potentially dangerous) set, that serves only to accentuate the petty and bitter world of Ben Butley's academia. The direction is totally unobtrusive--which is exactly as it should be in a small and personal play of this sort. Credit...