Word: plot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about the limits of the new reforms will be on the minds of the Kremlin's leaders as they mark the 70th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution this week, just as the issue was discussed by those gathered in Beijing's Great Hall of the People last week to plot their country's course. The debate is not only about the future but also about the past. Every Sunday at Moscow's newly reopened Novodevichy Cemetery, hundreds of curious Soviets wander among the gravestones, searching for a missing piece of history. The quest usually takes them to the jagged, black...
Granted, the script of Charley is almost foolproof (thus its appeal, I suppose, for actors and directors). Because the play is a farce, its humor depends almost entirely on plot, rather than on more difficult elements like character development...
...plot creates humor in this comedy of manners through its byzantine machinations and convolutions. Incredible coincidences pull the characters into embarrassing situations, and only even more incredible coincidences can pull them...
Oxford lads Jack (R. Donivan Barton) and Charley (Marc D. Peters) have invited Kitty (Kris Alexander) and Amy (Abigail Shapiro) to lunch in order to propose to them. Charley's aunt, the pretext for inviting the girls, sends word that she can't come. Through a Plot Machination and an Incredible Coincidence, the boys find a substitute "aunt": their friend Fancourt (Adam L. Schwartz) in full drag. A Plot Machination or two later, both Jack's father, Sir Francis (Billy Salloway) and the girls' guardian, Spettigue (Jon Hill) arrive, and both take a shine to the "aunt." Things get worse...
...Popish Plot...