Word: matriarchal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stagehands volunteered to take big pay cuts. Says one prop man: "We figured they got a bad shot from that guy Kerr." Some help may have come too from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which suddenly made Watch seem disquietingly relevant. Says Jan Miner, who portrays the Washington matriarch who discovers that even her comfortable home is not safe from the fascist menace: "This play means as much...
Playwright Lapine writes amusing lines. At one point the mother asks the younger son why he doesn't get a job. An immigrant matriarch, her next question is pencil-point sharp: "Why did you go to college?" His riposte: "To avoid being asked questions like this after high school." One of the distinctly appealing aspects of Table Settings is its benign ami ability. Even when Lapine's characters verge on cartoons, he presents them as en dearingly human in their follies, desires and genetically nutty ways. His direction of his own play is brisk, and his cast...