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...play the stuffy lawyer and Linda Atkinson for his wife, who always had a cause like saving Grand Central Terminal from the developers; Michael Ayr as the unbusinesslike architect and Jill Eikenberry as his aristocratic Italian wife; Luis Avalos for a comical Latin bartender and Evelyn Mercado as the maid he lusted after...
...main problem with this play is that all three of the characters are so consistently loco that we become dulled by it. There should be a doorman or a maid or something--someone to set off the shrieking and flyings ashtrays. That, or a tauter script. After the play's rambling dialogues, its climactic scene in which Scooper leaves his blind mother talking to a wheelchair while he and Dierdre run off (to Doubleday?) leaves you cold...
...Almost all of the characters are white because the play is set in 1927. It's a comedy of manners, so detail and realism are important because we're commenting on the times. So there are only certain roles--the butler, the maid, the boxing coach, the Indian servant--that could be performed by someone nonwhite...
...Five centuries after she was burned at the stake, every facet of her person, her trial and the surrounding events are still scrutinized and argued by lawyers, theologians, historians, mystics, psychologists, poets and playwrights. Even medical pathologists have joined in the continual replaying of the trial of the Maid of Orleans. In 1958 Scholar Isobel-Ann Butterfield and her physician husband John theorized that an advanced infection of bovine tuberculosis might have led to the phenomenon of Joan's hearing voices. Critic Albert Guérard was right when, in a review of one of the thousands of books...
...hourly wage but not his $100 weekly take in tips. "You don't have to worry about getting caught," he explains. "It's your word against the IRS."-Jerry, a Cincinnati lawyer, provides "free advice" to an employment agency for domestics. In exchange, the agency sends a maid every week to clean his apartment-gratis. Jerry "makes" $1,500 a year in unreported income on the deal...