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...future in dreams, we are looking through the eyes of an observer in some future time. Similarly, within the play, one of the characters is treated to two distinct temporal visions of her life. Act II, which takes place nearly 20 years after Acts I and III, offers protaganist Kay Conway (Margaret Whitton) a glimpse into the future of herself and her family...
...scenes that frame Act II feature Kay as a 21 year-old birthday girl, gazing out the window, excited by both her party and the recent return of her brother Robin from World War I. These scenes take on an ethereal quality as youthful Kay in her summery dress peers outside while her mother entertains the guests offstage with a song by Schimann...
UNFORTUNAIELY, the constraints of theater as a medium disrupt the continuity that would have brought out the dream nature of the second act itself Time and the Conways should have been a screenplay, because only film, with its uninterrupted flow, could cast the spell that moves Kay through time. But the breaks for set and costume changes necessary to bring the action up to--and back from 1938 ruin the transition between Kay's states of perception. As a result, Act II appears to be a mere leap in chronology rather than, as the author intended, a transformation of consciousness...
Nevertheless, Time and the Conways offers top-notch drama even if the concept of serial time gets lost in the translation from page to stage. Though the second act appears to be our own vision rather than Kay's, the play still holds together beautifully. It also surpasses most plays in its offhand observations offering true insight that one can only marvel at the fact that the current production by the Huntington Theatre Company is the first major staging of the play in 45 years...
Game-Winning RBI--Haring E--Bauer LOB--URI 5, Harvard 5 2B--Haring DiCesare, Maspons Weller, Merleth HR--Allard: 7, Vierra (3) DP--URI 3. Harvard 1 SB--Kay S-Harper SF Vierra. IP H R ER BB SO Harvard Larson L 5-1 7 10 7 7 2 7 Brown 2 1 0 0 0 0 URI Ward...