Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bikini, she watches the struggle develop, soothing a pride here and averting a challenge there. The youth takes little notice of her at first but soon comes to appreciate the solace she offers. For her part, she enjoys the boy's sensitivity--a quality long since abandoned by her husband...
...that two Bette Davises are better than one. Bette plays a set of identical twins: one named Maggie, one named Edie, both at the hag end of middle age. Poor Edie hates rich Maggie because Maggie stole the man she had once wanted to marry. When Maggie's husband dies, Edie decides that his money rightfully belongs to her. So she puts a bullet in Maggie's head, a revolver in Maggie's hand and Edie's clothes on Maggie's back. Maggie is buried in Edie's grave and Edie goes tootling...
Joan plays Lucy Harbin, who, catching her husband abed with another woman, breaks up the affair with an ax. She is adjudged insane and committed to an asylum. After 20 years she comes out on probation to join Daughter Diane Baker, who has been raised on a ranch by an aunt and uncle. Diane takes Lucy out to see where they "butcher the chickens," then shows off the pigs. "We fatten them up for the slaughter." Oh oh, slip of the tongue. Sorry. Lucy looks away. Pretty soon, by golly, a person can't carve a roast for dinner...
...characterizations benefit from revealing gestures. They enhance Laura Esterman's fine performance as the minister's wife; she smooths her skirt self-consciously as she utters smug platitudes--and grasps her husband'; sleeve distractedly after falling in love with Dick Dudgeon...
Koelb has blocked the action to produce tableaux which highlight the play's themes. Some of these capture and frame a perfect moment of deception. For example, Mrs. Dudgeon is more concerned about the disposition of her property than the death of her husband; then she enters the room in slow-paced mourning and all relatives rise and bow their heads in sympathy...