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SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL and RIGHT YOU ARE are studies of one of the most active and lethal parts of the human anatomy, the wagging tongue. In Richard Sheridan's high comedy, a hive of busybodies is gleefully exposed and undone. In Luigi Pirandello's philosophical drama, a nest of vipers invades the privacy of a family and destroys the tenuous balance of their lives. The APA again...
...work if Playwright Shaffer had pared the show and tightened the pace. Choosing to be optically antic, he evades the opportunity to show how the eye lies and the mind's eye ferrets out reality -which might have given the evening more intellectual relish, a sort of Pirandello flavor. In a one-act opener called White Lies, Shaffer tries to be wise rather than clever about lovers and lovelessness. As an impoverished fortuneteller, Geraldine Page performs with feline grace, but Shaffer's dramatic crystal ball is murky. Fortunately, the evening is redeemed by Black Comedy's dancing...
...SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL and RIGHT YOU ARE. Sheridan's bastion of busybodies provides a showcase for the comic talents of the APA repertory company, and Pirandello's dramatic investigation into the nature of reality affords them the opportunity to keep the philosophical ball rolling with a light touch...
RIGHT YOU ARE, like The School for Scandal, centers on a group of gossipers, but in Luigi Pirandello's philosophical drama, the effect is tragic and destructive. A handsome production...
RIGHT YOU ARE, like Scandal, centers on a group of gossipers, but in Luigi Pirandello's philosophical drama, its effects are tragic and destructive. A handsome production...