Word: puntila
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Nightcaps--Dunster Dining Hall at 8:30 The Gondoliers--Agassiz at 8 Emma--Next Move at 8 Puntila and Matti--Cambridge Ensemble at 8 The Furies of Mother Jones--People Theater Jubalay--Theatre by the Sea at 8:30 My Mother...My Son--Boston Rep at 8:08 Rosmersholm--Trinity Square at 8 The Indian Wants the Bronx--Charles Playhouse at 8 Lost Cookies--Eliot Dining Hall at 8 Hedda Gabler--Winthrop JCR at 8 A Thousand Clowns--Leverett Old Library at 8 p.m. Nosh--Laurie Theater, Brandies, at 8:30 p.m. The Tempest--Quincy Dining Hall...
Nightcaps--8:30 and 11:00 The Gondoliers--8:00 Next Move Revue--Next Move at 8 The Caretaker--Lyric at 8 Puntila and Matti--8:00 Mother Jones Jubalay--8:30 My Mother...My Son--8:08 Rosmersholm--8:00 Indian--8:00 Lost Cookies--Eliot Dining Hall at 8 Hedda Gabler--Winthrop JCR at 8 p.m. A Thousand Clowns--Leverett Old Library at 8 p.m. Comelot--Belmont Dramatic Club at 8 p.m. Nosh--Laurie Theater, Brandies, at 8:30 p.m. The Tempest--8:15 Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead--8:00 Scenes from The Comedy of Errors--Loeb...
Nightcaps--8:30 The Gondoliers8:00 Emma7:00 and 10:00 The Caretaker--5 and 8:30 Puntila and Matti--8:00 Mother Jones Jubalay--5 and 9:00 My Mother...My Son--6:30 and 9:30 Rosmersholm--8:00 Indian--7:30 and 9:30 Lost Cookies--Eliot Dining Hall at 8 Hedda Gabler--Winthrop JCR at 8 A Thousand Clowns--Leverett Old Library at 8 and 11:15 Scenes from the Comedy of Errors--Loeb Ex at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Camelot--Belmont Dramatic Club at 8 p.m. Noah--Laurie Theater, Brandies...
...Puntila is a wealthy Finnish landowner and a totally different man when drunk than when sober. When drunk, he is generous, kindly, amorous, democratic and the soul of good fellowship. When sober, he is mean, arrogant, priggish and smoldering with hatred for his fellow man. Puntila sober, as Brecht sees it, is a class-conditioned animal. Puntila drunk is Rousseau's child of instinctive natural goodness. Some richly comic scenes pivot on this personality split. Puntila sober wouldn't dream of fraternizing with his chauffeur Matti; Puntila drunk begs Matti to marry his daughter. Puntila drunk gets engaged...
While the Marxist polemics are dated-who keeps servants, anyway?-the psychological tensions of the play are intact. Actor Roger Hamilton is a bristling porker of a Puntila, rutting, grunting and swilling his way through the part, but Michael Fairman's Matti is a trifle too stiff and condescending to be a Sancho Panza foil to this flamboyantly intoxicated Don Quixote...