Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quiet way, our visitor clutches his ribs in glee when he thinks of what the ASPCA said about the "balance of nature." The natural habitat of the bird owl is the Harvard Yard, and to take him away for a winter in the suburbs would upset a delicate scale. Then he puts his foot in his mouth and chokes with mirth when he things of those pigeons and squirrels...
...part of the ASPCA's balance of nature. Surely it doesn't apply only to owls, muses the wise one. People are the ones who make the rules, and they are like owls, only not so wise. If they believe that what is goes, perhaps they live that way themselves. A pleasant world for a bird of prey...
Saturday night the Idler Players of Radcliffe presented William Congreve's "The Way of the World" in a modern-dress version. This play, the wittiest of Restoration comedies, fares badly by modernization because it is best enjoyed as a period piece. Taking "The Way of the World" of the Restoration takes a great deal out of the ply itself...
There are two additional hardships put upon the audience and the actors by the modernization that possibly did not occur to the Idlers. Modern audiences expect modern plays (as this one now is) to have a plot they can follow or else no plot at all. "The Way of the World" contains the world's most complicated plot: when seeing it done in Restoration style the plot rightly seems of no importance; when it becomes a play of Cafe Society, there is a natural and frustrating inclination to try and figure...
...Witwoud of Peter Davis-Dibble seemed to carry over best into modern dress and he was particularly funny in his drunk scene. Carol LaCascio, as Foible, and Harris Clay as Sir Wilful Witwoud were especially good. The part of Lady Wishfort was a disappointment, both in the too-subtle way the Lady's name was pronounced and in Nancy Rodriguez's unsubtle portrayal...