Word: parlour
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...later in Little Women. In real life it was inhabited by a succession of local celebrities--the Alcotts (1845-48), before they moved to Orchard House; Nathaniel Hawthorne (1852-53 and 1860-64), who gave the house its current name and added the Italianate tower topped with a "sky-parlour"; and Harriett Lothrop (1883-1924), who under the pen name Margaret Sidney wrote the classic Five Little Peppers books...
What fascinates here is not Wellman's imaginative yet forced theatrical parlour tricks, but rather the strong ensemble cast and the mesmerizing visual and emotional pitches achieved by their director, David Levine. When the play opens with Nella, we know we are already standing on unsure ground. In Marolachakis's hands, Nella's dialogue seems to come from a place both ancient and newborn. Her opening monologue in which she declares, "you always live downwind of something peculiar," feels just right...