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...which is suddenly electrified by the arrival of a "foreigner." The audience meets Betty Meeks (Jeanne Simpson), proprietor of the fishing lodge in which the action takes place; the Reverend David Lee (Richard Claflin) and his fiance Catherine Simms (Bina Martin); Catherine's exuberant but uneducated brother, Ellard (Ian Lithgow); Ku Klux Klan member Owen Musser (Glenn Kessler); and military man Forggy Leseur (J.C Wolfgang Murad), who brings the painfully shy Charlie Baker (Tom Hughes) to Tilghman County and suggests that in order to avoid conversation he pretend to be a foreigner...
...Lithgow avoids reducing Ellard to a Georgian stereotype. His wide chewy expressions and drawly English lessons--"Bah-urd" for board, "Faw-Werk" for fork--are hilarious. But Lithgow also convinces the audience of Ellard's softness and struggle to learn the language he teaches...
...pool does have a long and colorful history. It was built in the early 1900s for Westmorely Court, one of a group of private dormatories referred as the "Gold Coast" dorms because of their wealthy undergraduates. Numerous well-known Harvard graduates, including Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 and John Lithgow '67, were among users of the pool...
...final act, Cross departs from the more traditional staging of the previous three. The set is removed and in one corner the old doctor, Ivan Romanovich Chebutykin (Ian Lithgow), covers himself in newspapers. In a lesser production, this dramatic move could have proved distracting and muted the impact of the final scenes, but the performances are so absorbing that this change does not seem important...
...male actors give credible performances, particularly Lithgow and Tira Foran as Beth's hard-working but stubborn father. Unfortunately, Hill has several male performers scream and shout to convey anger when more moderate tones would have been more effective...