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...middle-American marriage bound together not be love, but by hate. Martha Susannah Rabbi, an unhappy academic wife shiewishly taunts her younger husband for tailing to move up the academic, ladder at the small college where he teaches history, and where her Lather is president. Her husband George Christopher Keyser) retorts with pointed references to her accumulating years and alleged infidelities. Throughout, he refers to her in a variety of zoological references and at one point speaks of an imaginary child being the apple of their three eyes, Martha being a cyclops...
...Tyrrell Keyser Phoenix...
...most consistent in avoiding this pitfall is Susannah Rabb as the incredible Eleanor, whose abundant stage presence lets her lea into moments and deliver lines with the weight they deserve. Chris Keyser fares slightly less well as Henry, probably the most challenging character to convey, with by far the most lines--show-stopping or otherwise--and the most emotional peaks. Often his monologue's become so passionate and vigorous that they border on the shrill, shortchanging the "moments of truth" that must descend on a king who has fought to build a near-imperial England and-now sees his grown...
...Chris Keyser, in the crucial role of John Proctor, carries this approach vigorously to its full implications. Proctor, an upright but far from blameless Salem farmer, is tortured by the need to prove to himself and to his truly unstained wife Elizabeth that he is, in fact, a good man. As the witch trials become a raging mania in Salem, Proctor becomes inextricably involved, dragging all his past failings to light--including his liaison a year before with Abigail Williams, the girl accusing the Salem women of witchcraft--but can finally do nothing except die for his beliefs...
...Harvard team of John Bredehoft '80, William Foutz '80, and Chris Keyser '82 cited an 1866 report that energy sources would run dry in 30 years...