Word: talking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three balls, mind you--or somersaults or tweaks noses with a paddle-ball. He and his comrade the Captain (Michael Farrell) are rescued from hunger by Leander (George Sheanshang) and Crispin (Warren Motley), who have established credit with the Innkeeper (Richard Anderson) by means of fancy clothes and fancy talk. Motley is a sleek, clever confidence man, putting it over on everybody, even his friend Leander, who in the end turns against his sneaky wiles. Leander, the ostensible hero, is altogether a mediocre guy; he manages to fall truly in love with equally dull Silvia (Demetra Striggles), who luckily stands...
This impact of this production depends mostly on the business; the lines are all there, but like Shaw (Bonds was first produced in 1907), Benavente has lost some of his iconoclastic punch over the years. It is no longer shocking to talk of a matchmaker who makes matches for money, but it is still extremely funny to portray her. The swashbuckling Captain, always bursting into snatches of Italian opera and clapping his friend Harlequin on the back, makes you nostalgic for the good old days when the army was never a sick joke but a funny...
Even her own contributions to the noise level are beyond her control. People, especially female people, deal with the tension caused by having so many together in such close quarters by talking. The only way to get back at them all is to talk at them. Nicely. Everyone must be nice. There are eight girls in these rooms, Patty and Sally, who are nice, Jane and Tina, they're nice, Sandy and Betty and Linda and Mary, also nice. When one of them gets tired of being nice and would like to play a record very loudly and perhaps scream...
...from being surrounded by people you see in bits and hear about in pieces. You can't look too long at anyone in a dorm; you have to keep circulating. You have to avoid real participation in the other people's lives; the way you do it is by talking. One would think that among all the talking going on in a Radcliffe dorm there must by the laws of probability be some of the stuff called intellectual conversation, though no one's really sure what that is. But much of the talk is out of control, a thing detached...
...defensive units, mechanisms for keeping out the threats of existence. Their cost is resistance to new and unexpected alternatives. Awareness gets lost and apathy takes over. Guilt -- the feeling of not doing what one could be doing--pervades everything. Energy is diverted from action to depression, and talk flips back and forth on two-way switches...