Word: perlimplin
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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...finished its second year of activity last weekend with a solid if not outstanding program of two plays. The first was Stanley Palombo's new look at the Oedipus story, Oedipus and the Sphinx, which appeared in the recent issue of the Advocate. A translation of Lorca's Don Perlimplin by Ricardo de la Esperiella concluded the entertainment. Neither, obviously, offered anything startlingly original; both were nicely executed and moderately entertaining...
...idea behind Don Perlimplin did not come through as clearly as it should have, but I cannot say whether this should be laid to the actors, the translation, or the original. The performances seemed to be uniformly well-handled and the language clear, yet if the actors understood the final meaning of the play they were not totally successful in transmitting it to the audience. Colgate Salsbury as Don Perlimplin was fine as an elderly gentleman who marries in confusion and falls in love with his wife after she has betrayed him, but his subsequent transformation to cleverness and understanding...