Word: manor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...action of The Mousetrap takes place at Monkswell Manor, a countryside guest house that opens its doors for the first time as the play begins. Director Adam Schwartz effectively uses Leverett's Old Library's natural set-up to simulate a house, owned and run by a couple of newlyweds, Mollie Ralston (Holly Cate) and Giles (Bill Salloway...
...play opens with a radio flash about a murder committed in London, just 30 miles away from the manor's living room. Into this room come Mollie and Giles. After a slow start, Cate discovers the spirit of her role and overcomes her weak British accent. In contrast, Salloway is bland from the start and stays that...
...Donal Logue plays this character with flair, but also with a touch of caricature. Entering from stage left is Mrs. Boyle (Jennifer Hodges), who wears far too much makeup on her face and powder in her hair. Boyle is a "bloody bat," a chronic complainer trapped at Monkswell Manor by the ongoing blizzard. But Hodges lacks the voice and mannerisms for which the part calls...
...household. The last governess died mysteriously, and Miles' teacher did too. To complicate matters, she begins to hallucinate, seeing the images of the dead governess and teacher hovering around the children. She starts and screams for no reason, and all this within three days of arriving at the manor...
...some 40 years of struggle, his ideal landscape, Naipaul must watch its deterioration and decline. He can, within reason, be philosophical about this process, acknowledging that his sense of loss is not unique: "Yet I also knew that what had caused me delight, when I first came to the manor, would have caused grief to someone who had been there before me." What he loves represents a dereliction of what existed earlier...