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Philip Naff Fort Sheridan...
Watching French Marxists grapple with the radical theories of Michel Foucault, says the philosopher's Translator Alan Sheridan, is like watching "a policeman attempting to arrest a particularly outrageous drag queen." The solemn specialists who patrol the American university have their own difficulties with Foucault. Leo Bersani of the French department at Berkeley eulogizes him as "our most brilliant philosopher of power," but Yale Historian Peter Gay dismisses him: "He doesn't do any research, he just goes on instinct." Anthropologist Clifford Geertz of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study attempts a new classification: "He has become...
Certainly, at least one of director Brian Sands's objectives succeeds in this production of Sheridan's The School for Scandal, running through this weekend--to make the audience feel that it is sitting in someone's Restoration living room eavesdropping on the hottest new gossip...
There's the Sheridan plot. Joseph Surface (Andrew Olson) has an alliance with the gossip Ms. Sneerwell (Melissa Franklin); the neighborhood thinks they're shacked up, but it's strictly a business relationship formed so that Ms. Sneerwell can entrap Joseph's brother Charles, which in turn would enable Joseph to pursue Charles's sweetheart Maria. And so forth, with old gentlemen, loan sharks, inheritances and marital quarrels all mingling in a rollercoaster plot that just can't be disliked...
...maintaining the light touch which is the show's greatest strength. At times it goes too far, as with the cast's steadfast refusal to give the graceful 17th-century lines any more emphasis than they would modern English. Despite the modern clothes, the translation of pounds to dollars, Sheridan's language deserves the flourish and emphasis of the Old World; without it, only the verbosity carries through...