Word: adolphus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confab in Lady Britomart Undershaft's London town house. Long estranged from Andrew, the haughty lady (Betty Leighton) knows her select social turf, but that's all. Daughter Sarah (Janet Barkhouse) is enamored of a bean-brained fop (Briain Pet-chey) and Barbara is in love with Adolphus Cusins (Tom Kneebone), an impecunious teacher of Greek...
...failure in the cast is Peter Thompson, who portrays Adolphus, professor of Greek and Barbara's fiance. Shaw fashioned the role as an affectionate parody of the great Classics scholar and translator Gilbert Murray. Thompson, surrounded by players with flawless British accents, comes out as thoroughly American. It is as though someone like Henry Fonda were to pop up in the middle of the Old Vic company...
...Shaw's text. For some reason he felt it advisable to alter a number of phrases and to make some substantial cuts in the latter portion of the script. Gone are the remarks about Undershaft's Jewish partner Lasarus; gone are some delectable barbs aimed at Parliament; gone is Adolphus's philosophizing about power. Surely, Mr. Sheria, in a performance that runs two hours and twenty minutes, we could hold our seats for ten minutes more. But thanks for doing so well with what you consented to give...