Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whether or not Lovett ever caves in to the pickets and desegregates, the diocese has already been bitterly divided by the situation, and it may take years for the ill will to dissolve. To one priest in the diocese, the Lovett School has become "the Little Rock of the Episcopal Church." It is in fact a small-scale but authentic Christian tragedy...
...Many wives are forgiven for falling; few for falling ill...
...Visit tells of the return of an old and rich woman to the impoverished German town where she was born. The townsmen have known great poverty all their lives, and they hope that her lover of 50 years ago--Alfred Ill, played by Christopher Medearis--can persuade the old lady to give them some money. The old lady agrees to help--she will contribute the phenomenal sum of "one billion"--on one condition. It seems her former boyfriend had made her pregnant, and then denied before a court of law that he was responsible. As a result she was forced...
...first the townsmen spurn the offer and stand behind their popular fellow-townsman, Ill. By the end of play they will accept it. Ill himself is terrified at the beginning that he will eventually be killed for the money. He forgets his fear, however, and calmly awaits the death he is cynically certain will come...
These two transitions, around which the play revolves--through no fault of the actors--are not uniformly smooth. The weakest scene in the play involves the transition from fear to calmness in Ill. The script has actor Medearis writhing on the ground in terror at one moment and existentially accepting his fate minutes later. Medearis is asked to change moods with impossible speed, and the scene is unconvincing...