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...Never Can Tell?? is the fourth and final of Shaw’s “Plays Pleasant,” a series of light, satiri-cal comedies that Shaw penned in the early stages of his career. There’s not much of a plot. Instead, a custody battle, a romance, and turn after turn of sparkling conversation float easily along in the play’s seaside setting...
...course, even the brightest dialogue can sink like rocks without actors who know how to de-liver it. Fortunately, the cast of “You Never Can Tell??—made up almost entirely of freshmen—is very strong. That most of them will be around for the next four years only makes this perform-ance more exciting...
...Clandon’s two younger children, Dolly and Phil represent hyper-education gone wild. Phil, in particular, is a character rich with the kind of verbal weirdness that makes “You Never Can Tell?? such an incisive comedy—he insists on calling the dentist Valentine a “gum architect” and frequently references his “knowledge of human nature”—but Stuntz doesn’t quite know what to do with Phil’s quirks...
That may be what makes “You Never Can Tell?? such a terrific achievement: it does to its audi-ence exactly what it does to its characters. Leaving the Ex on Friday night, I felt a little like Val-ente—disoriented, exhilarated, and happy to have stumbled into something wonderful...
...20th century is an opportunity you can’t miss. Shaw in performance is a really special treat and we’ve made it 10 times more fun than it is just on the page,” Birnbaum says. Though “You Never Can Tell?? was originally set in the 1890s, Birnhaum’s version is loosely set in the 1920s, a change which adds to the whimsical atmosphere that encompasses the play and is embodied in everything from big band swing music to the Chinese lanterns that hang all over...