Word: hounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fire in the Dunster House dining hall says, "It isn't so bad. You have to move all the tables out and then put them back in, but other than that it's O.K." But Liza DiPrima '89, who this spring directed two Tom Stoppard farces, The Real Inspector Hound and After Magritte, in the same space contends, "It's the worst...
Unfortunately, the production fails to realize that the dialogue in itself is the attraction of these plays, not the development of characters or progress of the story. While After Magritte is tolerably brief, The Real Inspector Hound, performed with the same cast, ponderously follows every twist in the script...
Like After Magritte, The Real Inspector Hound is a detective parody; the twist here is to blur the lines between audience, reviewer, cast and character. The "mystery," such as it is, is irrelevant, merely serving as an excuse for Stoppard to play with conventions of the stage. Set in a Gothic mansion on the moors, a group of caricatures expound upon their social problems--but somewhere outside, an escaped criminal lurks. The players include a dimwitted blonde (Susan Kelly), a melodramatic maiden (Meg Schellenberg) and a gruff crippled veteran (Wise) who play cards endlessly. Into the scene comes a stranger...
...could probably withstand even the most brutal student production. But simple problems mar the production, particularly failed attempts at British accents and a failure to alter annoying British colloquialisms; phrases as "wind screen" instead of "windshield," "shaving foam" instead of "shaving cream" distract the audience for no purpose. Inspector Hound, moreover, at longer than an hour, begins to grate. DiPrima would have been wiser to slice out a third of the dialogue, and concentrate on the sparkling delivery of the remainder...
...convinced that a once valued aide must leave. When Sherman Adams, Dwight Eisenhower's steely chief of staff, admitted in 1958 that he had accepted a vicuna coat and some blankets from Textile Manufacturer Bernard Goldfine, even Ike, who had vowed that his Administration would be "clean as a hound's tooth," took no action until Republican fat cats warned that party fund raising might suffer unless Adams left. Eisenhower let aides pass that worry along to Adams, who then stepped down. As Adams wrote in his memoirs: "Any presidential appointee whose presence in the Administration becomes an embarrassment...