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Directed by Laith Zawawi...
Directed by Laith Zawawi...
...disturbing. Jacob Press, who plays a doctor specializing in lobotomies, delivers his lines like one of his own patients. Press' imitation of a New Orleans drawl is not only bad, it is also insulting. And it bears a great resemblance to that of a Romanian character which Director Laith Zawawi played in Rope last year...
THEN there are the liberties Zawawi takes--and doesn't take--with the text. Although Williams intends the play to leave Catherine's sanity in question, he biases the audience's choice. In one scene Cathie complains that she lost yard privileges at the sanitarium because she refuses to eat fried grits. In the original play, that statement does not go unchallenged. "She lost yard privileges because she couldn't be trusted in the yard without constant supervision or even with it because she'd run to the fence and make signs to cars," nurse Sister Felicity says...
Directed by Laith Zawawi...