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...well as the other two "Puritan" plays) he was poking fun at this genre and pulling the pedestal out from under the Romantic hero. The play is, then--if I may run the risk of Polonius' excessive categorization--an example of the didactic parody - melodrama. Brilliant comedy, epigrammatic wit, and hectic melodrama are here in abundance--but all in the service of solid intellectual ideas...
...including the Don Juan in Hell scene it would seem that Director Joseph Everingham was striving for a philosophical reading of the play. But while concerned with Shaw's thought, Everingham has not forgotten Shaw's wit; he has clearly attempted to exploit all the obvious opportunities for laughter. As a result, the Harvard production is part farce, part serious philosophy. The two approaches sometimes jar. There is little subtle comedy to bridge the two moods, and the actors and their audience have trouble making the transition...
Everingham's Man and Superman has its problems; the talk does get tedious in spots. Still, Shaw remains remarkably funny and the Harvard players have enhanced his wit with a good, workmanlike production well worth seeing
...Raymond's hazel-eyed daughter, won rave reviews in the London production of The Miracle Worker, added to her reputation in the Gielgud-Richardson School for Scandal, is now starred in a revival of The Doctor's Dilemma. Equally talented is her brother Daniel, 29, whose wit and whimsy set the fairy-tale mood of Broadway's airy musical She Loves...
...pace was fast and contrasts in facial reactions were so skillfully done that much of what seemed to be dry material in the written script became laugh-provoking wit on stage...