Word: vassilissa
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...characters divide down the middle between men and women. The men, mostly former convicts, expect the women to uphold a higher standard of morality, to "have souls." Too often, however, the women fail in the moment of trial. Vassilissa (Kimberly J. Ravener '03), Peppel's landlady and sometime mistress, is as pure an expression of bitchiness as recent memory offers. The one potential for action in the play comes when she tries to persuade Peppel to kill her husband. Nothing comes of it. That ambition is as abortive as any other. Adding to the cycle of destitution, Vassilissa and Peppel...
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