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Representing Southern debutantes at Harvard are Elly Malone, who came out in Austin, Texas, Catherine Robe from Spartanburg, S.C. and Sarah Stevenson, a grad student who came out in 1988 in Jackson, Miss...
Catherine Robe, whose debut was this past December, came out at one of Spartanburg's three deb clubs, The Assembly, a ladies' social club which was the scene of her mother's, grandmother's and great-grandmother's debuts...
...guess it's sort of a family thing," Robe observed, adding, "My mom left it up to me; it was not a pressure thing." Robe's own personal history overruled her initial, being presented to society. It just doesn't seem useful...
Instead of just portraying Myra as a wife who is legitimately afraid of her husband's potential for evil, Catherine Robe plays Mrs. Bruhl with the wacky enthusiasm of Jerry Lewis. Robe incessantly grabs at her pearls, fiddles with her knitting needles and organizes and reorganizes liquor decanters as if these were the international signs for being nervous. Her lack of subtlety impairs her delivery as she swallows most of her lines, confusing the scenes that she is in. When Mrs. Bruhl does meet her "plot twist", the audience is more relieved than shocked...
...Williams' ideas breed such confusion. Jennifer Breheny, as Isabella, dons the judge's robe as she makes aa decision about Angelo's unwonted sexual advances, cleverly highlighting the paralel moments of judgement. Angelo himself first appears wearing a bowler hat and an anonymous coat like Magritte's schoolmaster, conjouring up an image of a man without character. And the Duke's self- indulgent megalomanic manipulation becomes evident when he chants his twisted schemes to the music of the band, as if officiating at an arcane religious rite...