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...Affair is an affair of justice, treated with a Galsworthy-like concern for the niceties of fair play. Judiciously adapted by Ronald Millar from the novel by C. P. Snow, the play relies on tension rather than passion, and its evocation of an English university milieu is donnish, literate and civilized...
...Affair. Faithfully adapted by Ronald Millar from the novel by C. P. Snow, this play scrupulously tracks justice through a lair of university dons. Intellectually sprightly and impeccably acted, The Affair offers playgoers the added pleasure of hearing literate English spoken with grace and precision...
...Affair. Faithfully adapted by Ronald Millar from the novel by C. P. Snow, this play scrupulously tracks justice through a lair of university dons. Intellectually sprightly and impeccably acted, The Affair offers playgoers the added pleasure of hearing literate English spoken with grace and precision...
...Millar has also managed to foul up the pace of The Affair. One of the most impressive elements of any Snow novel is its slow, heavy, deliberative--almost inexorable--progress: each move, when it comes, seems inevitable, and there are seldom any false steps. In the play, though, everything happens at once. Tempers flare, men change sides and jump around the Common Room with the speed and effectiveness of Harold Lloyd. Again, of course, the novel's deliberate speed would admittedly have been deathly on the stage, so Millar had to do something; but, again, too, Millar's answer...
...Finally, Millar has misconstrued most of Snow's characters. Lewis Eliot, whom Millar has, for some reason, knighted, has become some sort of a passive Eric Portman figure, and no longer imposes any recognizable pattern on the various narrative fragments. Arthur Brown, to take only one other example, has suddenly sprouted a Falstaffian beard and manner: in the book, of course, he is the mildest and most sober of men. In fact, only G. H. Winslow, the College's delightfully tart ex-Bursar, and M. H. L. Gay, the Senior Fellow, retain any of their Snow-given characteristics; and their...