Word: varlet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that, alas, is all there is. Even good acting by Burstyn, Maher and the rest of the company cannot create a play where none exists. The dialogue is sometimes unbearably cloying. Hanff is given to saying things like "thou varlet," but except for the fact that she is single, Roose-Evans tells almost nothing about her, far less than he reveals about her friends in England. Does she have a love life? Not a word. Does she ever leave her apartment? Again, scarcely a syllable. Has she ever explored one of Manhattan's secondhand bookstores? Apparently not. There...