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...plot of How the Other Half Loves is almost as complicated as the staging. Bob Phillips (John Duda '99), a bored young businessman, has an adulterous affair with Fiona Foster (Sarah Matthay '99), the promiscuous wife of Bob's manager. Their unfortunate decision to use fictitious after-work jaunts with Bob's socially inept coworker William Detweiller (Kirk Hanson '99) and his wife Mary (Erica Rabbit '00) as a means of covering up their late-night meetings leads to a sequence of embarrassing dinner parties, misread signals, and confused assumptions on the part of almost everyone involved. Place...
Ruiz's men would border on the wrong side of caricature, though, were it not for their more grounded female counterparts. Matthay, as Fiona, is the most outrageous of this trio, though suitably so. She breathes cold-blooded temptress through every line. Kate Agresta '02 as Teresa Phillips and Rabbit as Mary Detweiller provide the backbone of the ensemble. Stressed out and overwhelmed, respectively, they provide glimpses from outside the crazy world that Ayckbourn creates, giving a somewhat more reasoned (or at least reasonable) response to the circus act that their life has become...
From the outset, Raina, played by Sarah Matthay '99, offered a bright contrast to the dismal effort of many members of the cast. Although she became overbearing and whiny at times, her motions and dialogue were able to shine through the weaknesses for most of the show. The promise for future success was evident, and a better script is all she needs to unleash her talent...
...Women and Wallace" goes for the theatrical jugular immediately. Minutes into the play we are led into a warm domestic scene: Wallace's mother (Sarah Matthay) calmly prepares a peanut butter and banana sandwich for little Wallace. After he excitedly snatches the lunch and trots off to the second grade, Wallace's mother jots a note and then slits her throat. As the play progresses, it becomes clear that this is the defining moment of Wallace's life. We know early on why his relationships with women will be screwed up and inevitably end in disaster...
...Wonder. In the Brubeck home at Concord, Calif, (pop. 12,493), his mother kept five pianos. Dave was playing the piano by the time he was four; he started searching almost as soon as his fingers touched the keys. Instead of practicing the method of famed Piano Pedagogue Tobias Matthay, used by his mother for her stream of pupils, little David spent every minute that the keyboard was free picking out pieces of his own. He tried harder to please his father (who gave him four cows when he was eight and called Dave his "partner"); later he learned...