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...Frenchman must be doing some pretty high-speed spinning in the grave. The Boston Repertory Theatre features a contemporary version of The Misanthrope; the production inspires antipathy not towards mankind in general but towards one in particular; the director. Scapino! at the Loeb fares much better; George Hamlin's skilled direction turns an uneven collection of actors into a smooth comic troupe...
...showcase actors who are only slightly better than average, and by amateur standards at that? The cast at the Loeb is good but not great in a show that demands the superb. George Hamlin's meticulous direction has' molded a group of inexperienced players into an entertaining comedy troupe, but this Scapino was marked for mediocrity long before rehearsals began...
...cast has an easier time of it. Tom Myers as the side-kick Sylvertro turns in the best performance of the evening; his character's personality is one of the few that emerges clearly in this relatively homogenous cast. Myers' physical control enables him to demonstrate the sophistication of Hamlin's direction; each twist of the neck and slide of the back shows perfect tuning. Paul Redford as the humpbacked Geronte and James Holt as the insipid suitor Leandro are also quite good...
...this cast, however, seem bent on annoying the audience--Jonathan Prince with his woeful mugging, Caryl Yanow with her too-stiff innocence, and Lisa Popick with a laugh of practiced exaggeration that ceases to be funny the second (let alone the twenty-second) time it is done. George Hamlin leads this production, rescuing an inexperienced cast with rigourously detailed direction. One gets the impression that he has told them exactly where every bone and muscle should be at any given moment. Their timing is incredibly sharp. The pacing on the whole is a bit slow, but things will probably pick...
This well-crafted play affords the best of the standard summer stock fare--a nice, light evening with an old American favorite, what is currently classified as "family entertainment." The Loeb production, with warm wit and the impeccable Hamlin duo, provides a welcome break from the self-conscious intellect usually found in this theatre...