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...Webster Lithgow, whose arrangement of the bare stage for Six Characters was unobtrusively correct and atmospherically grubby, has under-estimated the need for Victorian naturalism in the settings for Earnest, which should never be designed by anyone but Cecil Beaton. The play is very carefully related to its background in life--Wilde even knows the address of John Worthing's town house. (Fen Lasell's formidable costumes are much more in the vein, because they appear impeccably "period...
...written as a movie script; the story is told in one hundred and forty-one scenes in the printed text, some lasting only a moment. Thomas sent his hypothetical cameraman up and down the streets of a whole city; Joseph Everingham, the adapter, Stephen Aaron, the director, and Webster Lithgow, the designer, have had to cram all this onto the double stage at Kresge. They have wisely stuck close to Thomas' original, and, having attempted the impossible, brought it off better than might have been expected...
...sets by Webster Lithgow were imaginative without being distracting. Michyl Veach's costumes not only covered the required territory, but occasionally added to the local color. Director James Paul paced the play with a properly professional skill. Some very bright behind-the-scenes work was done by choreographer Liz Keen. Miss Keen is not only imaginative, but she fully exploited the possibilities of her dubious dancers...
...story across with great gusto thanks to the work of a generally talented cast, greatly aided by director Stephen Aaron and musical director Howard Brown. What it lacks in polish, it almost always makes up for in vigor. Backed up by the sumptuous settings and lighting of Webster Lithgow and Jordan Jelks, the actors really go to town--especially in the ladies department...
...Cavior are quite clever. Choreographer Dolly Niggemeyer had little dancing talent to work with, but seems to have produced remarkable results--nothing fancy, but a varied and pleasing design. The outstanding freshness, which pervades throughout the production, may well have been stimulated by the originality of Webster Lithgow's truly inventive settings. Their informality and unobtrusiveness typifies a very relaxing and enjoyable production...