Word: treasonable
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Somebody could write a fabulous play about Benedict Arnold. James A. Culpepper hasn't. Treason at West Point never gets beyond exposition and tactics. The characters rarely come alive; some of them never even come into focus. The cast does a fine job with what they have, but the show's a bore...
...generals are being given commands--and losing them--Arnold is persuaded by his wife that Washington thinks him a "crippled fool." She suggests he go over to the British. Ten thousand pounds are offered. He accepts. But we never see whether it's avarice or anger that provokes his treason. And, even more inexcusable, Culpepper does nothing whatsoever with the scene in which Arnold decides...
Novelists can tickle their readers with ambiguities, but a dramatists should at least indicate to his players how to behave. Director Robert Chapman and the Treason company have had to decide for themselves...
...benefit performance of month's Eastward Ho, and the HDC to mount a special Treason Sunday night, when the Loeb is dark. Apparently the word gotten around...
...dramatic technique "Treason at West Point" shrivels somewhat when set beside the play that took second prize in the Anderson Award competition, "The Reprisal." Mark Bramhall, an Osbornian iconoclast, puts a reckless, sensuous man into the collar of a divinity student, then sticks both man and collar in one corner of a writhing triangle. The dialogue blazes with violent, staccato speeches as David, the protagonist, banters and bickers with his mistress and the good girl in the piece. Occasionally the sarcasm and the yelling get childishly out of hand, but as a whole the drama is exciting, exhausting, and superb...