Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...VACATION approaches once again, the prospect of traveling home via Amtrak looms large for many students from the Northeast Corridor. The federally-sponsored and seemingly always-bankrupt railroad has a unique sort of charm. If you like crowded, eternally late trains and continually climbing ticket prices, you'll love Amtrak. Every experienced Amtrak rider has had several brushes with destiny during the long rides to school and back. the railroad comes complete with a stock of weirdos, winos, and generally pitiful people, all of whom seem hellbent on telling you their life stories or annoying you as much as possible...
MOLIERE'S PLAYS are masterpieces of satiric comedy which mercilessly debunk the fraudulent and bogus in society, with true love emerging as the victor over all the social conventions which oppose...
...situation becomes increasingly chaotic as the play progresses with Toinette deftly playing Argan's love for his wife against his love for his daughters to keep him from doing anything rash. Unfortunately, Beline discoveres Cleante in Angelique's room, and Argan resolves to send her to a nunnery...
...lovers are saved by the deus ex machina arrival of Beralde (Eric Luftman), Argan's Jock La Lane brother, who forces him to see that his doctors are charlatans, that his wife is a floozy, and that his daughter must marry for love, not his interests. All this is done with the help of a few tricks by Toinette...
...Henderson's Angelique is the only truly disappointing characterization in the show. She delivers her lines much too flatly and seems to be very consciously "acting." This might be director Katherine Lo's fault as much as anyone's. Her speeches with Thomas about a woman's rights in love and marriage should be a show-stopping piece of enlightened dialogue, but she swallows them whole...