Word: lovewit
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...most extreme of the Protestant lunatic frings; Kastrll (Lee Silverman) is suitably boorish but sometimes so much so that you can't understand what he's saying. Dame Pliant (Andrea Stein) is a dumb blonde who turns out to be the prize for the rogue who out-cozens everyone, Lovewit (Will Englund), who returns from a vacation to appropriate everything Subtle and his partner Face (Charles Weinstein) have stolen. He is indulgently intelligent, the consummate man of the world...
...point of The Alchemist must be made largely through its pacing. The moral plague which settles over Lovewit's London house must come with lightning speed as Subtle and Face deceive victim after victim; and at the end of the play the victims must converge on the house in a thunder clap of righteous indignation. The audience should be allowed to catch its breath only in the final moments, when Face miraculously stands triumphant after his final deceit. If Mirsky speeds the action and limits the number of actors who lasciviously roll their tongues around their lips and ostentatiously finger...
...follows: Subtle, the alchemist, C. Kempner '06 Dol. his wife, K. K. Smith '04 Face, the housekeeper, P. E. Osgood '04 Dapper, a laywer's clerk, A. L. Thayer '04 Drugger, a tobacco man, D. C. Manning 1L. Sir Epicure Mammon, a knight, R. S. Wallace '04 Lovewit, master of the house, H. S. Deming '05 Pertinax Surly, a gamester, R. I. Underhill '06 Tribulation Wholesome, a pastor of Amsterdam, H. McI. Holmes '06 Ananias, a deacon, H. P. Johnson '05 Kastril, the angry boy, T. P. Smith '05 Dame Pliant, a widow, R. B. Gring '05 First Officer...
Written by Jonson in 1610, the play satirizes the folly of the time, the search for the philosopher's stone. One Master Lovewit, frightened by the spread of the plague in London, departs for the country, leaving his house in care of his butler, Jeremy, better known because of his militant audacity as Face. Face fetches Subtle, a charlatan, into the house and represents him to all comers as one skilled in alchemy, able at will to call up the spirits of heaven and earth. Aided by Dol, Subtle's wife, the cunning sharpers play upon the credulity...
...since previously announced, has been greatly changed, and is now as follows: Subtle, the Alchemist, C. Kempner '06 Face, the Housekeeper, P. E. Osgood '04 Dol, their colleague, K. K. Smith '04 Dapper, a lawyer's clerk. A. L. Thayer '04 Drugger, a tobacco man. D. C. Manning 1L. Lovewit, master of the house. H. S. Demming '05 Sir Epicure Mammon, a knight, R. S. Wallace '04 Pertinax Surly, a gamester, R. I. Underhill '06 Tribulation Wholesome, a pastor of Am- sterdam, H. McI. Holmes '06 Ananias, a deacon, H. P. Johnson '05 Kastril, the angry boy, T. P. Smith...