Word: patelin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Things get much better very quickly after that. Master Pierre Patelin is an ancient and anonymous French piece beloved of high school French teachers, who are not in all respects exactly like the rest of us. The complicated plot concerns a disreputable lawyer who cheats others and who is himself cheated, and never would intrigue have been less intriguing, except for an excellent actor by the name of John Casey. Mr. Casey sweats not, neither does he strain. He plays the shifty Patelin as one of those people who, when they are not leaning against something, contrive somehow to appear...
...Eliot Drama Group Will open its spring season Thursday, Feb. 26 with three traditional farces on an arena stage. Cervante's The Judge of the Divorce Court, Holberg's The Healing Spring, and an anonymous French play, Master Pierre Patelin, make up the program...