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...while." Unlike most Harvard productions, where auditions are individual and private, Havergal chose to let everyone perform in front of everyone else. "It was in a lit house where everybody wanted you to fail because they wanted your part," Jon S. Goerner '78, who plays the servant Figaro, says. "You feel terribly guilty if you went there with 40 people and you were the only one who made it. But I loved it," he adds...
...often the cast plays for laughs instead. Daniel Terris as De Flores--the misshapen servant to the heroine, and villain of the play--mars what might have been a superb overall performance by childishly pouting in his early scenes. De Flores lusts after his mistress Beatrice (Anne Montgomery) and offers to kill the husband her father intends for her. She accepts and her complicity in this crime draws her into a whirlpool of moral corruption...
...have yet to see anyone mention two very important points concerning that "overly generous" Government employee annuity. First, each civil servant has a flat 7% deducted from his or her gross salary. Second, after having retired and received an amount equal to that contributed, usually about 18 to 24 months after retirement, the annuitant pays full federal (and in most cases, state) income tax. Howard R. Wesley Blue Ridge Summit...
After reading your harsh appraisal of the federal civil service, I was reminded of M. Beaumarchais's classic insight in The Barber of Seville: "Judging by the virtues expected of a servant, does your Excellency know many masters who would be worthy of valets...
Toinette, however, is quite well done by Robin Leidner. As it says in the short biographic squib in the program, she has played the servant in other plays; and she does it again here with a good feel for the humor of the character...